Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161845AbWJDRFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:05:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161828AbWJDRFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:05:18 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:12740 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161804AbWJDRFO (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:05:14 -0400 Subject: Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot From: Alan Cox To: Alex Owen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net, aabdulla@nvidia.com In-Reply-To: <55c223960610040919u221deffei5a5b6c37cfc8eb5a@mail.gmail.com> References: <55c223960610040919u221deffei5a5b6c37cfc8eb5a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:30:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1159983049.25772.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/