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

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From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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