From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756550AbYJIUhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:37:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755692AbYJIUhF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:37:05 -0400 Received: from 57.Red-88-2-100.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([88.2.100.57]:39728 "EHLO mail.leals.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755570AbYJIUhF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:37:05 -0400 From: Davi Leal To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:36:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnuherds-app-dev@nongnu.org References: <200810082353.31033.davi@leals.com> <20081008230827.6e1423fe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081008230827.6e1423fe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810092236.58534.davi@leals.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.