On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:40:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > 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" Well, Robin's problem looks distinctly different than James'. I believe Robin's problem has to do with the legacy EEPROM access routines. The patchset may have overlooked something in that area. I just need to gather evidence to prove it. I did run some tests this afternoon on a similar IA64 HP machine and they ran fine. Consequently, I'm optimistic that James' problem is local to his machine. If this turns out to be a wider problem, then I agree we'll need to find an appropriate solution. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
