Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 18:08:38 EST


On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:53:30 +0200
Davi Leal <davi@xxxxxxxxx> 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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/