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

Ayaz Abdulla
2006-10-06T21:03:10Z

It is just a legacy bug that we have to live with. Newer chipsets will
have the correct format in the BIOS.

With the latest forcedeth driver and latest PXE you should not have any
issues.

Regards,
Ayaz

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Linville [mailto:linville@tuxdriver.com]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:12 PM
To: Ayaz Abdulla
Cc: Alex Owen; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

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
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John W. Linville
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