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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710292311070.32301@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:12:25 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> cc: toms@...derland.us.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch On Oct 29 2007 15:10, David Miller wrote: >> On Oct 29 2007 08:54, Tom Southerland wrote: >> > >> > This patch provides a unique mac address for all interfaces >> > for the Sun QFE card (non-sparc). It takes the base mac from >> > the first interface and increments the mac address for the >> > other interfaces. >> >> Where is the difference to a SPARC QFE? PCI is PCI after all, is not it? > >To answer the question, yes it is just a normal PCI device, they put 4 >HME chips behind a PCI bridge. However, the OpenFirmware on the cards >usually creates device node properties for these PCI devices for the >local ethernet addresses. That's what he's trying to duplicate here. > The question was more like: if I put in a QFE (that was acquired together with a SUN E250) into x86, would I get duplicate MACs? (Would be strange - I would have supposed the OF on the card is independent.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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