Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262420AbVDGK2m (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:28:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262421AbVDGK2m (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:28:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35274 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262420AbVDGK2j (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:28:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:28:05 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Ian Campbell , Sven Luther , "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg KH , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. Message-ID: <20050407102805.GA9586@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , "Eric W. Biederman" , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Ian Campbell , Sven Luther , Theodore Ts'o , Greg KH , Michael Poole , debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050404192945.GB1829@pegasos> <20050404205527.GB8619@thunk.org> <20050404211931.GB3421@pegasos> <1112689164.3086.100.camel@icampbell-debian> <20050405083217.GA22724@pegasos> <1112690965.3086.107.camel@icampbell-debian> <20050405091144.GA18219@lst.de> <1112693287.6275.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4254FEC0.5060708@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4254FEC0.5060708@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 14 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:34:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading > >is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case. > >Or to support advanced features which can be disabled. > > TSO firmware is commonly used these days. Because our TSO support has been totally broken for a long time? - 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/