Messages in this thread | | | From | Ryan Cumming <> | Subject | Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:14:38 -0700 |
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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.
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