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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] netdev/phy: Add driver for Cortina cs4321 quad 10G
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On 05/22/2012 11:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:59:52AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> [...]
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/cs4321-ucode.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,4378 @@
>> +/*
>> + *    Copyright (C) 2011 by Cortina Systems, Inc.
>> + *
>> + *    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + *    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> + *    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> + *    (at your option) any later version.
>> + *
>> + *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> + *    GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + */
> [...]
>
> So where's the real source code for it?

I wish I knew.  The vendor released the array of random numbers as GPL 
to us. :-(

>
> If you won't (or can't) provide source code for the microcode then it
> should instead be submitted to linux-firmware with a binary
> redistribution licence, and the driver should load it with
> request_firmware().

I will attempt to do that.

The .c file contains plenty of other pseudo-random numbers, but those 
cannot really be considered 'firmware'

David Daney