Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:27:54 +0200 From: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad ethernet card on AXi starts with identical MAC addresses on 5.2.1R Message-ID: <BBB57974-D9B9-11D8-835A-000A95A94932@radio-do.de> In-Reply-To: <20040719184127.GA20452@ida.interface-business.de> References: <CD6F5740-D9A3-11D8-A4E6-000A95BA60A4@radio-do.de> <20040719170238.GA3121@sunhsc.germany.sun.com> <20040719172658.GC10699@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040719184127.GA20452@ida.interface-business.de>
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Am 19. Jul 2004 um 20:41 schrieb Joerg Wunsch: >> 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... > I found a reference to "local-mac-address" in OF_getetheraddr2 in=20 ofw_machdep.c return (OF_getprop(node, "local-mac-address", addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN)) but I can't see how setting local-mac-address to true makes sense here. OF_getetheraddr reads a OF property of "idprom". In theory there must=20 be a similar property for the QFE card. But I am not the OF guru to dig=20= into that further. Gru=DF Frank --=20 Frank Nobis, Thielenstr. 12, 44369 Dortmund Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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