From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 13:19:01 +1000
> Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
> property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.
>
> The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
> happens to break
Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.
The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
happens to break with some choices of MAC addresses in qemu by testing
for a bit in the address
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 17:30 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > + /* Workaround for old/broken pHyp */
> > + if (mac_len == 8)
> > + mac_addr_p += 2;
> > + if (mac_len != 6) {
>
> Missing 'else' before the second if?
Absolutely... oops :-) I couldn't find a version of pHyp with the wr
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:35 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
> property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.
>
> The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
> happens to break with
Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.
The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
happens to break with some choices of MAC addresses in qemu by testing
for a bit in the address
