From: Davi Leal <davi@leals.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnuherds-app-dev@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:36:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810092236.58534.davi@leals.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081008230827.6e1423fe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
People position seem to be continue to pledge to pay $151 to the developer(s)
(even if it's Broadcom in case they apply to the pledge system) who provide a
free driver for tg3 devices.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 21:53 free tg3 ethernet driver Davi Leal
2008-10-08 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-09 20:36 ` Davi Leal [this message]
2008-10-09 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-09 22:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-09 22:22 ` Davi Leal
2008-10-09 1:13 ` Chris Snook
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