From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mcarlson@broadcom.com
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, mchan@broadcom.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix big endian MAC address collection failure
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:40:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090413.184035.137905532.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414012548.GB11615@xw6200.broadcom.net>
From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:25:48 -0700
> Michael noticed that your NVRAM signature is byteswapped in NVRAM. (!)
> That also explains why the driver is trying to obtain the MAC address
> through NVRAM, rather than getting it from shared memory. The device's
> bootcode is not working correctly.
If this problem is pervasive, which it seems it is since we
have at least two people hitting this problem, we'll need
to find a way to handle it without saying "update your
BIOS or system firmware"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 15:29 [PATCH] tg3: fix big endian MAC address collection failure James Bottomley
2009-04-13 21:32 ` David Miller
2009-04-13 21:42 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-13 21:44 ` David Miller
2009-04-13 22:17 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-13 22:32 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 1:25 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-14 1:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-14 2:00 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-14 2:19 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-04-14 2:51 ` David Miller
2009-04-14 3:56 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-14 3:51 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 4:11 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-14 15:26 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 15:31 ` Robin Holt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-13 15:21 James Bottomley
2009-04-13 18:00 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-13 18:04 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-04-13 18:13 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-13 18:18 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-13 18:24 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-13 18:15 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-13 18:37 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-13 20:48 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14 1:17 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-14 15:39 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-14 19:02 ` Matt Carlson
2009-04-18 23:00 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-19 7:30 ` Michael Chan
2009-04-19 22:32 ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-20 20:46 ` Matt Carlson
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