netdev - Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix big endian MAC address collection failure

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Message-Id: <20090413.184035.137905532.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mcarlson@...adcom.com
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, mchan@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: fix big endian MAC address collection failure

From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:25:48 -0700

> Michael noticed that your NVRAM signature is byteswapped in NVRAM. (!)
> That also explains why the driver is trying to obtain the MAC address
> through NVRAM, rather than getting it from shared memory.  The device's
> bootcode is not working correctly.

If this problem is pervasive, which it seems it is since we
have at least two people hitting this problem, we'll need
to find a way to handle it without saying "update your
BIOS or system firmware"
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