On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 15:08 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2011-11-12 19:04, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > @Andreas and Dmitry: > > You may cooperate on packaging or decide, who wants to maintain it in > > the future. > > I just revived my old ITP http://bugs.debian.org/642198 > and tried to put my things in a git repository: > Only git://git.debian.org/~anbe-guest/r8168.git seems to work so far. > > > @Ben: > > I still think this driver should be added as alternative driver to the > > archive, until r8169 will do its job for the promoted PCIIDs correctly. > > One possible solution I see would be to upload r8168 to sid (or > experimental) and add a severity=serious bug "r8168 should not enter > testing - let's fix r8169 in the kernel instead" to prevent migration. > Documentation should include detailed instructions how to properly > report bugs for the in-kernel r8169 if it does not work (but r8168 does). > > Do I see it correctly that this driver is to be classified as non-free? > The source code says "GPL2+", but 50% of the source lines is something like > mdio_write(tp, 0x1E, 0x0078); > making this look very 'blobby'. Those sequences are reconfiguring the PHY, but some of them also patch the PHY firmware. Compare with the in-tree version which uses request_firmware() for the latter. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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