From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266048AbUHaBOp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266073AbUHaBOp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:14:45 -0400 Received: from S010600105aa6e9d5.gv.shawcable.net ([24.68.24.66]:48295 "EHLO spitfire.gotdns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266048AbUHaBOm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:14:42 -0400 From: Ryan Cumming To: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:14:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <412B5B35.7020701@apartia.fr> <20040825044551.GH1456@alpha.home.local> <20040824233648.53eb7c30.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040824233648.53eb7c30.davem@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1509679.xpAGbF2qz9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408301814.41346.ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1509679.xpAGbF2qz9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:36, you wrote: > 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. initramfs? > 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. =46or GPL compliance, no, that wouldn't work. The GPL states: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making= =20 modifications to it." Which is likely C or at least assembly with label names and comments in thi= s=20 case. =2DRyan --nextPart1509679.xpAGbF2qz9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBM9EBW4yVCW5p+qYRApXnAJ4tknoPxoHvDLhJfTEVMh2LMwdjJgCfbtt5 xa0o1TFKTQ1WLlxojgN3g/w= =hwTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1509679.xpAGbF2qz9--