Jes,

I've been debugging a new acenic device for HP and have been using a
linux machine for bring up.  One of the problems we encountered was a
need to change the cards MAC address.  Under linux ia32, the driver set
an invalid MAC address.  If I would
say 
        ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:23:45:67:89 (for example only)

Linux would know of it's correct MAC address, but the card had a
different 
address.  Through reading of the MAC registers (offset 0xb80-0xbf0), the
card
thought it's MAC address was 01:00:45:23:89:67.  Attached is a patch
that
would not do the halfword byte swapping.

Also, I have tested this device driver on a HP XU-800 Kayak (IA32) using
the HP 1000Base-T Lan Adapter A4929A device (copper), but it should also
work on the HP 1000Base-SX Lan Adapter A4926A (fiber).  Both of these
devices are 64-bit PCI.  I've not been able to test the A4924A or A4925A
because they are both on the (HP's) HSC bus.

These device specs can be found at:
A4926A -
http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/networking/links/1000base.html
A4929A -
http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/networking/links/gigetlpg.html

The attached patch is against version 0.46.  I also have a device driver
that allows me to dump all the acenic registers.  Let me know if you're
interested in a #define'd out patch.

-Stephen Hack
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jes Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Here is a patch for the acenic-v0.46 driver relative to whats in
> test8-pre4 - it solves a few bugs and cleans up a few minor issues in
> the code and comments.
> 
> I have been unable to test this patch but looking over the changes I
> cannot see any reason why it would cause problems.
> 
> Jes
> <snip>
diff -c drivers.old/net/acenic.c drivers/net/acenic.c
*** drivers.old/net/acenic.c    Tue Sep  5 13:21:11 2000
--- drivers/net/acenic.c        Wed Sep  6 09:52:25 2000
***************
*** 35,40 ****
--- 35,42 ----
   *   Ken Aaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Correct check for whether
   *                                       memory mapped IO is enabled to
   *                                       make the driver work on RS/6000.
+  *   Stephen Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Fixed ace_set_mac_addr for little
+  *                                       endian systems.
   */
  
  #include <linux/config.h>
***************
*** 2554,2560 ****
  {
        struct sockaddr *addr=p;
        struct ace_regs *regs;
!       u16 *da;
        struct cmd cmd;
  
        if(netif_running(dev))
--- 2556,2562 ----
  {
        struct sockaddr *addr=p;
        struct ace_regs *regs;
!       u8 *da;
        struct cmd cmd;
  
        if(netif_running(dev))
***************
*** 2562,2572 ****
  
        memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data,dev->addr_len);
  
!       da = (u16 *)dev->dev_addr;
  
        regs = ((struct ace_private *)dev->priv)->regs;
!       writel(da[0], &regs->MacAddrHi);
!       writel((da[1] << 16) | da[2], &regs->MacAddrLo);
  
        cmd.evt = C_SET_MAC_ADDR;
        cmd.code = 0;
--- 2564,2574 ----
  
        memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data,dev->addr_len);
  
!       da = (u8 *)dev->dev_addr;
  
        regs = ((struct ace_private *)dev->priv)->regs;
!       writel(da[0] << 8 | da[1], &regs->MacAddrHi);
!       writel((da[2] << 24) | (da[3] << 16) | (da[4] << 8) | da[5] , 
&regs->MacAddrLo);
  
        cmd.evt = C_SET_MAC_ADDR;
        cmd.code = 0;
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