[ipxe-devel] Intel 82576 MAC swapping

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 27 11:45:40 UTC 2012


On Friday 27 Jul 2012 12:44:28 Michael Brown wrote:
> > This means that if there's a MAC in eeprom, the is_valid_ether_addr
> > function is never reached, and so the autoloaded MAC is never checked
> > for validity.
> 
> Yes, that's correct.
> 
> Could you try the attached patch, and build with DEBUG=intel?  This should
> dump out the entire EEPROM contents on screen, which would be useful to
> know. (If you have a serial port and a null-modem cable, you can capture
> the output by enabling CONSOLE_SERIAL in config/console.h; otherwise a
> digital camera is probably easiest.)

And this time with the patch actually attached.

Michael
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