On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:56 -0500, Boxuan Gu wrote: > Hello, > > When I opened "/usr/src/linux_2_6_26/drivers/net/Kconfig", I found the > following: > > config TIGON3 > tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" > depends on BROKEN > depends on PCI > > I don't know what does "BROKEN" mean. I couldn't find where to set BROKEN. > > I removed "depends on BROKEN" and then executed "make menuconfig", I > could find the option for tg3. However, during the building of the > kernel, there were many comoiling errors for tg3.c. I think some > symbols in tg3.c depend on other source files. > > Could you please tell me why? What does "BROKEN mean" ? How can I > solve this problem? Thank you very much!
The "upstream" tarball for linux-2.6 is patched to remove much of the firmware that we do not have source code for. This causes the drivers that included that firmware to be broken, so they are marked as such. The Debian diff includes patches that fix most of these drivers so that they can load firmware from separate files. However "apt-get source" does not apply those patches; you need to use debian/rules to do that. It is usually easier to build your own kernel from linux-source-$VERSION which has those patches already applied (but not patches for special flavours like xen). Ben.
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