Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:36:48 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:45:52 +0200 Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> I think that he's using a debian kernel
I knew he was using a debian kernel from the moment I saw the string "tg3_request_firmware()" in the very first email of this thread.
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.
I guess these debian kernel folks replace the BIOS on their system with one they have the sources for as well.
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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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