Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug?] tg3: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:12:03 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 13:59 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:51:50 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > Yet that is exactly the impression that I have gotten over > > all of the communication I've received. > > > > then I'd like to set that impression straight (and burry the > conspiracy theories)... I've never asked David to do this for any kind > of legal theory or otherwise. Any of it, tg3 or otherwise. And while I > can't speak for Intel on legal aspects (if there are any here), I can > speak as Davids manager that this entire project hasn't originated from > anything we (Intel) asked him to do.
I wouldn't worry, Arjan. There is no basis for Dave's claim, and he knows perfectly well I was working on it before I was working for Intel.
It's perfectly sensible janitorial-type work which has needed doing for ages, and which I got interested in after a discussion about the kernel that Fedora ships.
The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (of which I'm a member) agreed that Fedora would _like_ to ship a firmware-less kernel, if that was technically feasible (and didn't involve actually breaking drivers).
-- dwmw2
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