From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, lcaron@apartia.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:36:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824233648.53eb7c30.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040825044551.GH1456@alpha.home.local>
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:45:52 +0200
Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> I think that he's using a debian kernel
I knew he was using a debian kernel from the moment I saw
the string "tg3_request_firmware()" in the very first email
of this thread.
I pity the poor fool who wishes to netboot his system using
a tg3 card and use an nfsroot with Debian. Kind of hard to
get the card firmware from the filesystem in that case.
I guess these debian kernel folks replace the BIOS on their
system with one they have the sources for as well.
The tg3 firmware is just a bunch of MIPS instructions.
I guess if I ran objdump --disassemble on the image and
used the output of that in the tg3 driver and "compiled
that source" they'd be happy. And this makes the situation
even more ludicrious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-24 15:13 TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 Laurent CARON
2004-08-24 16:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-24 18:34 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-25 1:37 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-25 3:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-25 4:02 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-25 4:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-25 6:36 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-25 7:47 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-25 8:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-25 19:03 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-31 1:14 ` Ryan Cumming
2004-08-31 1:33 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-31 5:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-25 7:40 ` Laurent CARON
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-30 22:16 Nathanael Nerode
2004-08-30 22:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-30 22:31 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-30 22:32 ` Andreas Schwab
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