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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:04:16 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Rick Lund" <rick.lund@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: putting cougars in the e-lab
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:58:34 -0800 "Rick Lund" <rick.lund@onstor.com>
wrote:

> Ok.  I've got some more info about this from Brian.  He agreed that on
> the SSC, the prom should program the MAC address in the sibyte
> registers.  And that this is not currently being done.  That's an easy
> fix.

Yeah.  I guess the sibytes have some nvram for just this sort of thing.

> He also said that the board seep info is supposed to be copied from
> the SSC into memory somewhere for the TXRX to retrieve, which
> contains the base MAC address from which it calculates the MAC
> addresses for the TXRX ports.  Does this sound correct to you?

That's news to me but probably not too difficult.

> 
> -Rick
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Maxim Kozlovsky 
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:52 PM
> To: Rick Lund; Andy Sharp
> Subject: RE: putting cougars in the e-lab
> 
> I think Andy wants the PROM to simply set the sibyte mac registers,
> then we don't need to pass anything to Linux, Linux does not need to
> parse anything and everything works because nobody will change the
> registers.
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Rick Lund 
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:48 PM
> To: Maxim Kozlovsky
> Subject: RE: putting cougars in the e-lab
> 
> Is the MAC address part of the strings that we pass up from prom into
> BSD right now?  I see some code that sets things like:
> 
> "memsize=..."
> "osloadoptions=..."
> .
> .
> .
> "macaddr0=..."
> "macaddr1=..."
> 
> Before jumping to BSD start address.  Is this the right info?  Or am I
> looking at something irrelevant?
> 
> -Rick
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Maxim Kozlovsky 
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:33 PM
> To: dl-Cougar
> Subject: putting cougars in the e-lab
> 
> Before we do that, we need to fix setting of the MAC addresses in the
> PROM and in Linux. Otherwise it might not work very well for any
> number of cougars greater than one.
> 
> Unless this is well under way, let me know and I will do it.
