From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264991AbUH3Wd2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:33:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264980AbUH3Wd2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:33:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:5248 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264704AbUH3Wcd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:32:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:31:24 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: neroden@fastmail.fm (Nathanael Nerode) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 Message-Id: <20040830153124.03aa84be.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040830221638.GA3596@fastmail.fm> References: <20040830221638.GA3596@fastmail.fm> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:16:38 -0400 neroden@fastmail.fm (Nathanael Nerode) wrote: > >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. > > Before you blithely made this claim, you should have actually tried running > objdump --disassemble on the image. I was speaking abstractly. It is well definted which parts of the hex arrays are the data, bss, and text sections. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to reconstruct things.