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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:12:37 +0100
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?
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References: <3E287188.9030909@hanaden.com> <1043052878.12182.26.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <001d01c2c161$90449f40$0100a8c0@pcs686> <1043189251.1384.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030122013130.GA1652@codemonkey.org.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <20030122013130.GA1652@codemonkey.org.uk>; from davej@codemonkey.org.uk on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0000
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:24, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
>  > > Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.
>  > 
>  > Which are binary only. So its still best avoided
>  
> For someone with far too much time on their hands, the
> 20KB binary object (complete with symbols) shouldn't be
> too much work to reverse engineer 8)
> 
> Although Jeff seems to be think that the chip is a clone
> of another existing NIC, so it may not be worth the effort
> if $driver can be made to work with it by adding some IDs..

Well, the IDE part in nForce certainly is a clone of another IDE, so
it's likely the NIC is as well. An idea comes to mind which one it could
be ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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