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From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: separate non-GPL tg3 firmware from GPL driver file
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:49:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405144904.GA25311@pegasos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405141258.GS26127@kalmia.hozed.org>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> Please either apply the following somewhere, or consider this a request 
> for the human-readable version of the "tg3TsoFwText" string, per the GPL
> requirements.

Notice that the same thing comes from (one of) the drivers distributed by
broadcom directly from :

  http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linux

$ cat fw_lso05.h
/******************************************************************************/
/*                                                                            */
/* Broadcom BCM5700 Linux Network Driver, Copyright (c) 2000 - 2003 Broadcom  */
/* Corporation.                                                               */
/* All rights reserved.                                                       */
/*                                                                            */
/* 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, located in the file LICENSE.                 */
/*                                                                            */
/* (c) COPYRIGHT 2001-2004 Broadcom Corporation, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.         */
/*                                                                            */
/*  Name: F W _ L S O 0 5. H                                                  */
/*  Author : Kevin Tran                                                       */
/*  Version: 1.2                                                              */
/*                                                                            */
/* Module Description:  This file contains firmware binary code of TCP        */
/* Segmentation firmware (BCM5705).                                           */
/*                                                                            */
/* History:                                                                   */
/*    08/10/02 Kevin Tran       Incarnation.                                  */
/*    02/02/04 Kevin Tran       Added Support for BCM5788.                    */
/******************************************************************************/
...
U32 t3StkOffLd05FwText[(0xe90/4) + 1] = {
0xc004003, 0x0, 0x10f04, 
0x0, 0x10000003, 0x0, 0xd, 
0xd, 0x3c1d0001, 0x37bde000, 0x3a0f021, 
0x3c100001, 0x26100000, 0xc004010, 0x0, 
...

It is specially ironic to see the GPL advertizement and the firmware binary
words together :)

Will contact their driver support team, and see what it gives.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05 14:12 PATCH: separate non-GPL tg3 firmware from GPL driver file Troy Benjegerdes
2005-04-05 14:49 ` Sven Luther [this message]

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