Bug#246889: tg3 support in 2.6 kernel
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:18:23PM +0200, David H?rdeman wrote:
>
> I seem to recall reading on the lists somewhere that the removal of
> firmware from the tg3 driver would only mean that some functionality
> (such as hardware checksumming) would be lost, not that some cards would
> loose support altogether, or am I mistaken?
Removing the firmware means that the driver will take a completely
different execution path (no TOS) than the normal Linux driver.
This would be impossible for me to support.
If someone else wants to do it, then it's fine of course.
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