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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/nfp: write PF MAC to config BAR
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:14:26 +0100
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On 9/13/2017 9:55 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> VFs rely on config BAR for getting the MAC address, although a
> random one is created a valid address is not found.
> 
> A PF port has a fixed MAC which is currently acquired using the NSPU
> interface. Some NFP firmwares require the MAC being writing back
> to the config BAR for doing proper MAC filtering.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.