What does "Tigon3" mean?

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Detlef Lechner <Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

Broadcom Tigon3 is likely the name of the chipset used in your Ethernet adapter.

BCM5751M is associated with the Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M
PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet adapter.

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