Hello,
Recently we've got some computers with new motherboard having NVidia
chipset. The motherboard has nforce12 & nforce13 Ethernet cards. I've
noticed that MAC address is setup random each boot. I debugged the
driver and found that these cards have right-byte order of MAC address
but the driver is expecting incorrect byte-order for these models. I
made hardcode the driver and MAC address became valid. Also I tried to
understand that difference in this revision of the chipset. But I
couldn't find anything interesting. I'm ready continue the investigation
to do correct changes in the driver but I need an advice.
P.S. It's simple to add DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR to pci_device_tlb for
these types of Ethernet. But I think it's not right decision because it
would break older revisions of these models.
[root@tfm ~]# lspci -vvv
.....
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 816a
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 201
Region 0: Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 1: I/O ports at c800 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
........
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