Bug#328324: please build powerpc64 kernel with tg3 support

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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 ? 

No that is not what I mean at all.

What I mean is: 
  It should either be on or off for all achitectures.
  The only exception should be if it is broken on a particular
  architecture.

And:
  If, from a licencing point of view, it can be included in the
  source that we ship, then it can be provided as a binary module.
  If the licencing is such that we can't provide a module,
  we should move it into the nonfree package (which probably
  doesn't exist in the archive yet).

Problems with split-config are tangential, they affect managing
the config, but not what the config should look like.

-- 
Horms