On Oct 29 2007 15:10, David Miller wrote:

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On Oct 29 2007 08:54, Tom Southerland wrote:

quoted

This patch provides a unique mac address for all interfaces
for the Sun QFE card (non-sparc).  It takes the base mac from
the first interface and increments the mac address for the
other interfaces.

Where is the difference to a SPARC QFE? PCI is PCI after all, is not it?

To answer the question, yes it is just a normal PCI device, they put 4
HME chips behind a PCI bridge.  However, the OpenFirmware on the cards
usually creates device node properties for these PCI devices for the
local ethernet addresses.  That's what he's trying to duplicate here.

The question was more like: if I put in a QFE (that was acquired together
with a SUN E250) into x86, would I get duplicate MACs? (Would be strange -
I would have supposed the OF on the card is independent.)