Re: TG3(Tigoon) & Kernel 2.4.27

Ryan Cumming
2004-08-31T01:14:45Z

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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.
For 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
modifications to it."

Which is likely C or at least assembly with label names and comments in this
case.

-Ryan

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