Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422649AbWJDSGo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:06:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161248AbWJDSGo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:06:44 -0400 Received: from hqemgate01.nvidia.com ([216.228.112.170]:6171 "EHLO HQEMGATE01.nvidia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161546AbWJDSGm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:06:42 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:06:30 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1159983049.25772.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot Thread-Index: Acbn1z8hLyodPSYCRoiWOX1FLXVgKQACEBQg From: "Ayaz Abdulla" To: "Alan Cox" , "Alex Owen" Cc: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2006 18:06:31.0304 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1F7D080:01C6E7DF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 42 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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/