Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:41:27 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad ethernet card on AXi starts with identical MAC addresses on 5.2.1R Message-ID: <20040719184127.GA20452@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <20040719172658.GC10699@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <CD6F5740-D9A3-11D8-A4E6-000A95BA60A4@radio-do.de> <20040719170238.GA3121@sunhsc.germany.sun.com> <20040719172658.GC10699@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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As Ken Smith wrote: > > > I am just wondering if that behavior is as intended. > > Yes, unless you set local-mac-address? to true in OBP. > I would be interested in knowing if this works. Last time I tried it on FreeBSD, it didn't work. > The pathway I followed seemed to dig the MAC address out of the > ID-PROM no matter what. In particular hme_pci_attach() seems to > call OF_getetheraddr() which in turn seems to blindly dig the MAC > address out of the idprom. I've also got that impression. I'd also be interested in a way to dig out the MAC address of the card (which must be possible, somehow -- after all, there are four address labels on the NVRAM [or whatever it is] on the card itself), so it would be possible to e. g. use a QFE card (which once has been a huge investment) on a non-sparc64 FreeBSD system. It seems that right now, the only dependency of the hme driver on sparc64 is the call to OFW to obtain the MAC address... -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/
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