[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Michael Pyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partially revert a change to mac address detection introduced to the forcedeth
driver. The change was intended to correct mac address detection for newer
nVidia chipsets where the mac address was stored in reverse order. One of
those chipsets appears to still have the mac address in reverse order (or at
least, it does on my system).
The change that broke mac address detection for my card was commit
ef756b3e56c68a4d76d9d7b9a73fa8f4f739180f forcedeth: mac address correct
My network card is an nVidia built-in Ethernet card, output from lspci as
follows (with text and numeric ids):
$ lspci | grep Ethernet
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
$ lspci -n | grep 07.0
00:07.0 0680: 10de:03ef (rev a2)
The vendor id is, of course, nVidia. The device id corresponds to the
NVIDIA_NVENET_19 entry.
The included patch fixes the MAC address detection on my system.
Interestingly, the MAC address appears to be in the range reserved for my
motherboard manufacturer (Gigabyte) and not nVidia.
Signed-off-by: Michael J. Pyne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800
Ayaz Abdulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solution is to get the OEM to update their BIOS (instead of
integrating this patch) since the MCP61 specs indicate that the MAC
Address should be in correct order from BIOS.
By changing the feature DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR to all MCP61 boards, it
could cause it to break on other OEM systems who have implemented it
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/net/forcedeth.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN
drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-fix-mac-address-detection-on-network-card-regression-in-2623
drivers/net/forcedeth.c
---
a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-fix-mac-address-detection-on-network-card-regression-in-2623
+++ a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -5551,7 +5551,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id pci_tbl[] =
},
{ /* MCP61 Ethernet Controller */
PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_19),
- .driver_data =
DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ|DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER|DEV_HAS_HIGH_DMA|DEV_HAS_POWER_CNTRL|DEV_HAS_MSI|DEV_HAS_PAUSEFRAME_TX|DEV_HAS_STATISTICS_V2|DEV_HAS_TEST_EXTENDED|DEV_HAS_MGMT_UNIT|DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR,
+ .driver_data =
DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ|DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER|DEV_HAS_HIGH_DMA|DEV_HAS_POWER_CNTRL|DEV_HAS_MSI|DEV_HAS_PAUSEFRAME_TX|DEV_HAS_STATISTICS_V2|DEV_HAS_TEST_EXTENDED|DEV_HAS_MGMT_UNIT,
As discussed in the thread (and Michael did provide dmidecode output
IIRC), one make everybody happy solution is to use a technique similar
to that found in drivers/ata/ata_piix.c to match a list of BIOS that
have incorrect mac addresses, and clear the feature bit
DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR.
I have attached an example patch of this approach -- someone merely
needs to take the patch, fill in the blanks, and test it! :)
Jeff
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
index a96583c..f7aab9b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
#include linux/init.h
#include linux/if_vlan.h
#include linux/dma-mapping.h
+#include linux/dmi.h
#include asm/irq.h
#include asm/io.h
@@ -4987,6 +4988,26 @@ static int nv_close(struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}
+static int have_broken_macaddr(void)
+{
+ static const struct dmi_system_id brokenmac_sysids[] = {
+ {
+ .ident = blahblah,
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, MY_VENDOR),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, blahblah),
+ },
+ },
+
+ { } /* terminate list */
+ };
+
+ if (dmi_check_system(brokenmac_sysids))
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct
pci_device_id *id)
{
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -4997,6 +5018,7 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
const struct pci_device_i
u32 powerstate, txreg;
u32 phystate_orig = 0, phystate;
int phyinitialized = 0;
+ int broken_macaddr = 0;
DECLARE_MAC_BUF(mac);
static int printed_version;
@@ -5180,10 +5202,14 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
const struct pci_device_i
np-orig_mac[0] = readl(base + NvRegMacAddrA);
np-orig_mac[1] = readl(base + NvRegMacAddrB);
+ if (!(id-driver_data DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR))
+ broken_macaddr = 1;
+ else if (have_broken_macaddr())
+ broken_macaddr = 1;
+
/* check the workaround bit for correct mac address order */
txreg = readl(base +
