On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:51:43PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 23:14, Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 09:10:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > The PCDs containing the default MAC addresses are of type UINT64,
> > > and so the byte order needs to be inverted. As they are currently,
> > > both default MAC addresses are invalid since they have the multicast
> > > bit set.
> >
> > Ah, oops.
> > That would also prevent them from being "locally administered" and
> > hence permissible without registering an entry in the OUI.
> >
> > However, to reduce someone interpreting the _new_ values that way
> > instead, could you do one of:
> > - Adding a comment explaining these are in reverse byte order.
> > or
> > - Convert them to the new Array type PCD[1], to make the bytes appear
> >   in natural order?
> >
> > [1] edk2 72a1d77694d51914c0dd6aa97dbfa58634b0a4a5
>
> How does one refer to such a PCD from C code?

Good question :)

/
    Leif

> > > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard/OverdriveBoard.dsc | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard/OverdriveBoard.dsc 
> > > b/Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard/OverdriveBoard.dsc
> > > index 05433d4472e8..2843e51f93f7 100644
> > > --- a/Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard/OverdriveBoard.dsc
> > > +++ b/Platform/AMD/OverdriveBoard/OverdriveBoard.dsc
> > > @@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ DEFINE DO_CAPSULE   = FALSE
> > >    gAmdModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPort1NetSpeed|1
> > >
> > >  [PcdsDynamicDefault.common]
> > > -  gAmdStyxTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEthMacA|0x02A1A2A3A4A5
> > > -  gAmdStyxTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEthMacB|0x02B1B2B3B4B5
> > > +  gAmdStyxTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEthMacA|0xA5A4A3A2A102
> > > +  gAmdStyxTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEthMacB|0xB5B4B3B2B102
> > >
> > >  [PcdsPatchableInModule]
> > >    gAmdModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdXgbeUseMacFromIscp|TRUE
> > > --
> > > 2.19.2
> > >
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