RE: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-04T18:06:44Z

This is a known issue and has been fixed in the latest PXE code. I will
have to find that information for you guys. Can one of you open a bug to
formally keep track of it.

Thanks,
Ayaz

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:31 AM
To: Alex Owen
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net;
Ayaz Abdulla
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

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

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