On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
> kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the
> current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
> 2.6.32.y.
>
> We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
> but there are so many interrelated changes to tg3 since 2.6.32 that
> this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of tg3 from
> Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/debian-linux.git netdev-test
>
> The kernel configuration files we use are at
> <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/> (note, this site
> will be unavailable for the next few hours).
>
> We would appreciate any help Broadcom can provide in testing this, and
> any advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported
drivers can now be found at:
http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will
have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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