Bug#328324: please build powerpc64 kernel with tg3 support
Sven Luther writes:
> > # CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set
> >
> > :( - since this Xserve G5 needs that to network.
>
> Waht can i say ? Don't use hardware which needs non-free drivers.
>
> Now, if they are not freed, we have some non-free modules, including tg3 i
> think, which needs to be built, this will come soon.
>
Well I did know that Debian had purged tg3, but then I noticed that
they are in linux-2.6 (2.6.12-6) source, with the "readdition" note
in the changelog in the (2.6.12-1) version section.
> > My main motivation was to get the fans to quiet down (they
>
> This should be fixed.
Yes, it is.
>
> > I look forward to someday soon having a linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64
> > that supports
> > Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
> > and perhaps lets the fans run slower when possible.
>
> So, ask broadcom to not include non-free firmware code in their drivers.
>
> You can even get the non-free-modules package out of the kernel svn, and build
> it yourself, if you feel like it.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
I think I'll just try building out of the linux-2.6 Debian source package.
Where is the svn for Debian's linux-2.6 kernel tree? I'd like to run
svn blame to see where the changelog line came from:
- readdition of tg3 driver, as firmware license has been fixed.
Maybe that wasn't quite right. I think that your interpretation of the
fix in firmware license is that it improves the situation from undistributable
to non-free distributable.
So, perhaps this bug needs to be reassigned to linux-26, and retitled to
"non-free content in kernel source packages in main should be removed (again)".
Thanks,
-Maitland
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