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Re: tg3 driver works without the firmware



Herbert Xu wrote:

> Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>> Herbert Xu wrote:
>> 
>>> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And, also, the tg3 driver supports ethtool ioctl's that allow you to
>>>> update the firmware from userspace.
>>> 
>>> Where is that?
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, it's just the generic "do anything" ioctl's; they'd
>> have to be called one word at a time, which would be gross and horrible.
> 
> Even so, where is the code in tg3.c that lets you do that?
I'm not entirely sure, but my guess is tg3_ioctl.  It appears to read and
write arbitrary regs.

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