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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