Bug#509646: bnx2x firmware licensing

["Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:30 -0700, John Wright wrote:
Hi John,
> > 
> > You are right - I'm adding a licensing to bnx2x_init_values.h similar
> > to the bnx2 license that you quoted. However, I'm not sure if now is a
> > good time to send such a patch to netdev for net-2.6 so I'm sending it
> > to net-next - please let me know if this is not enough.
> 
> Thanks!  I'm now cleaning up the request_firmware patch to submit
> upstream.  Is the init_ops array part of the firmware data derived from
> proprietary unpublished source code, or may I take that to be in its
> preferred form for modification?

The majority part of the init_ops derives from firmware proprietary
unpublished source code - however, it was merged between the two chips
(E1 and E1H) to reduce some code size (~1000 lines). We can split it
again between the two chips and have a file per chip if that seems
reasonable - the downside is that we will have about 1000 duplicated
lines of (mostly meaningless) registers initializations.

If this is the way we want to go, I can work on creating the two files.
What is the timeframe over here? When is the next deadline and when is
the one after that...?

Thanks,
Eilon