From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net,
aabdulla@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:30:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159983049.25772.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55c223960610040919u221deffei5a5b6c37cfc8eb5a@mail.gmail.com>
Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 17:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alex Owen:
> The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the
> canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen
> into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that
> may be?
Why not check if the first or last 3 bytes are the Nvidia owner bits.
The only card that will misdetect is
00:16:17:17:16:00
which doesn't matter anyway
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 16:19 forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot Alex Owen
2006-10-04 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-04 17:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-04 18:06 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-20 17:33 ` Alex Owen
2006-10-05 14:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-10-05 14:44 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-05 18:35 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-10-05 19:31 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-05 19:45 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-06 14:37 ` Alex Owen
2006-10-06 17:29 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-06 19:11 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-06 21:02 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-05 19:45 ` Andrew de Quincey
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