From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Davi Leal <davi@leals.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:08:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081008230827.6e1423fe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810082353.31033.davi@leals.com>
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:53:30 +0200
Davi Leal <davi@leals.com> wrote:
> We would like to have a tg3 driver which would be accepted as free by the
> FSF's standards.
Well if you want to write new firmware for the device you'll need to
reverse engineer the chip internals or convince Broadcom to document them
for you. I suspect you'll have to get to the point of xraying the
component slice by slice and need a multi-million dollar budget.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 21:53 Davi Leal
2008-10-08 22:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-10-09 20:36 ` Davi Leal
2008-10-09 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-09 22:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-09 22:22 ` Davi Leal
2008-10-09 1:13 ` Chris Snook
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