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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:11:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061006191115.GA21526@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DBFABB80F7FD3143A911F9E6CFD477B0189CAB16@hqemmail02.nvidia.com>

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:29:04AM -0700, Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> This has been fixed in version "243.0537". You will have to request an
> updated BIOS from your board vendor.

Ayaz,

Can you explain the whole "reverse-order MAC address" thing?
Why/how does it end-up in that register backwards in the first place?
Does it serve some purpose that way?  Or is it just a bug that we
have to live with?

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-06 19:11 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
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 [this message]
2006-10-06 21:02               ` Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-05 19:45       ` Andrew de Quincey

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