Re: free tg3 ethernet driver

[Davi Leal]

I propose we cancel and close the donation-pledge-group 58, [1], because of 
Alan Cox tell us it would be an almost impossible task to work out.  Read 
below:

  [1] http://gnuherds.org/pledges?id=58



Alan Cox wrote:
> > We would like to have a tg3 driver which would be accepted as free by the
> > FSF's standards.
>
> Well if you want to write new firmware for the device you'll need to
> reverse engineer the chip internals or convince Broadcom to document them
> for you. I suspect you'll have to get to the point of xraying the
> component slice by slice and need a multi-million dollar budget.
>
> Alan