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Message-ID: <20061006191115.GA21526@tuxdriver.com> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:11:30 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@...dia.com> Cc: Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.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 -- John W. Linville linville@...driver.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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