Bug#328324: please build powerpc64 kernel with tg3 support

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:34:06PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

What i was saying, is that someone probably used it to turn it on for all, and
powerpc was missed due to the split-config bug, but then maybe i am wrong,
anyway, go ahead and enable it.

> 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).

Indeed, but Andres has reenabled it in the main packages, so ...

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

Euh ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther