linux-kernel - Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

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Message-ID: <20081008230827.6e1423fe@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:08:27 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Davi Leal <davi@...ls.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:53:30 +0200
Davi Leal <davi@...ls.com> wrote:

> We would like to have a tg3 driver which would be accepted as free by the 
> FSF's standards.

Well if you want to write new firmware for the device you'll need to
reverse engineer the chip internals or convince Broadcom to document them
for you. I suspect you'll have to get to the point of xraying the
component slice by slice and need a multi-million dollar budget.

Alan
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