On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:36, you wrote:
> I pity the poor fool who wishes to netboot his system using
> a tg3 card and use an nfsroot with Debian.  Kind of hard to
> get the card firmware from the filesystem in that case.
initramfs?

> The tg3 firmware is just a bunch of MIPS instructions.
> I guess if I ran objdump --disassemble on the image and
> used the output of that in the tg3 driver and "compiled
> that source" they'd be happy.  And this makes the situation
> even more ludicrious.
For GPL compliance, no, that wouldn't work. The GPL states:
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making 
modifications to it."

Which is likely C or at least assembly with label names and comments in this 
case.

-Ryan