Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27

David S. Miller
2004-08-25T06:36:57Z

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.