Subject: Re: MAC address for PCI hme (Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/i386/conf)
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/29/2001 07:44:21 
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:22:03PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

 > The driver itself (/kernel/drv/hme on SunOS-5.8) contains these strings:
 > 
 > 	Using local MAC address
 > 	local-mac-address
 > 	mac-address
 > 	local-mac-address?
 > 	Local Ethernet address = %s
 > 
 > Perhaps the "local-mac-address" is a OFW variable name?

Yes, the Solaris driver fetches all this info from the FCODE on the
board by making an Openfirmware/Openboot "get property" call.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>