Hi all, I can confirm that I've seen the very same on multiple C8000 workstation too.
Can someone please apply this patch ? Tested-by: Guy Martin <[email protected]> Thanks, Guy On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:28:59 +0200 (CEST) Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > This is my first patch for my PA RISC C8000 machine: allow to use the > onboard NIC. > > Mikulas > > --- > > Allow the driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstation > > Search on the internet shows that the checksum field in the EEPROM on > HPPA is really not a checksum but a signature (different users > including me found the same mismatching checksum 0x16d6, despite > their MAC addresses and EEPROM content being different). > > So I allow 0x16d6 (the last word read) as the matching checksum on > hppa. > > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]> > > Index: linux-2.6.36-rc8/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.36-rc8.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c > 2010-10-24 04:01:03.000000000 +0200 +++ > linux-2.6.36-rc8/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c 2010-10-24 > 04:25:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -3840,6 +3840,12 @@ s32 > e1000_validate_eeprom_checksum(struc checksum += eeprom_data; } > > +#ifdef __hppa__ > + /* This seems to be a signature and not a checksum on HP > c8000 */ > + if (eeprom_data == 0x16d6) > + return E1000_SUCCESS; > +#endif > + > if (checksum == (u16) EEPROM_SUM) > return E1000_SUCCESS; > else { > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-parisc" in the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
