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

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Message-Id: <20090413.195159.56924183.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:51:59 -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 19:00:15 -0700

> I did run some tests this afternoon on a similar IA64 HP machine and
> they ran fine.

It can't be similar, James Bottomly is on HP PARISC (big endian) not
IA64 (which is little endian).

I'm still convinced this is a big-endian driver problem and it has
nothing to do with broken NVRAM or similar.
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