Bug#328324: please build powerpc64 kernel with tg3 support
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:03:07PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:29:29AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > A. Maitland Bottoms wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > 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?
> >
> > http://svn.debian.org/ , Project "kernel".
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Tg3 is built for most other architectures.
> >
> > > 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)".
> >
> > Or probably "re-enable tg3 for powerpc and arm".
>
> Unless there are technical problems, for instance, tg3 oopses
> all the time on arm (i made that up), it should either be on
> or off uniformly for all achitecturs. The licencing battle
> should be done at the source level - if its in our tree
> then its fair game to be turned on.
Oh, so you mean it is only off because of the split-config bug you mentioned
earlier ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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