Re: free tg3 ethernet driver
From: Davi Leal
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 16:38:43 EST
Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
People position seem to be continue to pledge to pay $151 to the developer(s)
(even if it's Broadcom in case they apply to the pledge system) who provide a
free driver for tg3 devices.
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