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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.