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

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David Miller wrote:

> From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:00:15 -0700
>
> > I did run some tests this afternoon on a similar IA64 HP machine and
> > they ran fine.
>
> It can't be similar, James Bottomly is on HP PARISC (big endian) not
> IA64 (which is little endian).

Matt brought up IA64 because Robin Holt reported what seemed like an
identical issue on SGI IA64 machine.

>
> I'm still convinced this is a big-endian driver problem and it has
> nothing to do with broken NVRAM or similar.
>
>

Agreed.  James' problem appears to be a big endian issue.  Everything
is endian-swapped in his NVRAM when he did the ethtool dump.

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