Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:08:27 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: free tg3 ethernet driver |
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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
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