Re: lack of tg3 in kernel -- please contact Broadcom

[Alex Perry <alex.perry@qm.com>]

Why can't we have a package that's called
   kernel-source-2.6.2-nonfree
as well as the existing one
   kernel-source-2.6.2
that are both automatically generated from the upstream
and placed into the main and non-free portions of our servers?

Frederik Schueler wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> In order to have an overview of what hardware support is needed in 
> our Debian-Installer effords, I have created the following overview:
>
> http://users.idf.de/~fs/k8-devices.txt
>
> Please send in additions and corrections.
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Stephen Waters wrote:
>  
>
> > Relevance: Several x86-64 boards have Broadcom NICs (including mine)
> >    
>
> As long as there is no consensus on this "evil firmware" topic, I would
> prefer to stay with vanilla 2.6 kernels in our installer, with full
> support for acenic and tg3 nics, and patched in bcm57xx support as well.
>
> When we become an official port, this discussion will hopefully be
> concluded.
>
> Frederik Schueler
>
>