linux-kernel - Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot

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Message-Id: <1159983049.25772.84.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:30:49 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@....net,
	aabdulla@...dia.com
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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