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From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix big endian MAC address collection failure
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:13:25 -0700
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Cc: "Matthew Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
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	"Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Kyle McMartin" <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:04:26AM -0700, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:00:52AM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > Hi James.  I'd like to think about this some more before we apply it.  I
> > investigated this problem using a 5703 on a SPARC Ultra 10, and all my
> > assumptions checked out.  I don't dispute that you and Robin are having
> > a problem.  I just don't understand where the root cause of the problem
> > is yet.  Stay tuned.
> > 
> 
> Did your card in the sparc have an openfirmware ROM? If so, it probably
> used the ofw tree to obtain parameters instead of the card nvram...

No, the test was run using a NIC.