What does "Tigon3" mean?

[Detlef Lechner]

Hi,

I am using an IBM Thinkpad T43 computer and Karmic.
'~lspci; 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)'
Thus my Ehernet controller chip is a BCM5751M from the manufacturer
Broadcom.
dmesg lists a line: "[ 7858.589362] tg3 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled"
Thus tg3 is operational on my computer.
/usr/src/linux-source-source-2.6.31/drivers/net/tg3 is headlined:
"tg3.c: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver."
What does "Tigon3" mean?
What is the relationship between BCM5751M and Tigon3?
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Broadcom_Tigon3 did not enlighten me.

Regards,
Detlef Lechner
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