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Message-ID: <1290813146.3051.58.camel@localhost>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:12:26 +0000
From: Ben Hutchings <benh@...ian.org>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 564628@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/r8169: Correct the ram code for RTL8111D(L)
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 23:49 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <benh@...ian.org> :
> > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 19:54 +0800, Hayes Wang wrote:
> > > Correct the binary code (Low pass filter & DLY_CAP fine tune from uC).
> > > The incorrect ram code would make the nic working abnormally.
> > [...]
> >
> > I'm glad you finally acknowledge that this is code rather than simple
> > register initialisation.
>
> I am not sure that Hayes is a native english speaker.
>
> I am glad to see him posting here.
Right.
Hayes, by 'you' I meant Realtek, not you personally. If my reply seemed
aggressive, I apologise.
> [...]
> > Below are the changes Debian currently applies in preparation for proper
> > licencing of the firmware.
>
> Do you have some scripts to convert the data at hand ?
[...]
No, it's easy enough to convert a single array by copying it into a C
file that dumps it to stdout (assuming the file's byte order is defined
to match your own machine).
It might be worth adding some sort of header with a version and
checksum. Your choice, really.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Debian Developer and kernel team member
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