Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264183AbUDRVBK (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:01:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264186AbUDRVBK (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:01:10 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:9476 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264183AbUDRVBI (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:01:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4082ECD9.5080308@myrealbox.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:02:17 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; DragonFly i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Jochens CC: davem@redhat.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3 driver - make use of binary-only firmware optional References: <20040418135534.GA6142@andaco.de> In-Reply-To: <20040418135534.GA6142@andaco.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 15 Andreas Jochens wrote: > The Debian distribution recently removed the tg3 Gigabit Ethernet driver > from its 2.6 kernels because it contains binary-only firmware, > i.e. software without source code, which violates the > Debian Free Software Guildelines. > > I not a kernel developer, but I looked at the tg3 driver > and it seemed that it might work even without the firmware parts. Your patch works fine for me on my ASUA A7V8X with BCM5702 rev2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/