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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:37:50 -0700
From: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@google.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:11 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> I've fought, like, forever, to
>> keep the tg3 driver with it's firmware in-tree.  I refuse to let the
>> driver get broken like that, it's staying working, and that means
>> in-tree and linked into the driver.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is the tg3 firmware contained in
> 'tg3FwText' and similar non-swappable u32 arrays which haven't changed
> _ever_ in our current git history?

It certainly has changed. Maybe that was before the move to git.
ISTR, Last time I looked at the tg3 firmware, it was on version 1.4 or 1.5.

thanks,
grant