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From: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com>
To: "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@intel.com>,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Edri,
	Michael" <michael.edri@intel.com>,
	"Ruinskiy, Dima" <dima.ruinskiy@intel.com>,
	"Shalev, Avi" <avi.shalev@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 2/2] igc: wait for the MAC copy when enabled MAC passthrough
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:45:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a539d4d-10b4-5b9b-31e7-6aec57120356@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47117935-10d6-98e0-5894-ba104912ce25@intel.com>


On 7/8/21 12:24 PM, Neftin, Sasha wrote:
> I would to like suggest checking the following direction:
> 1. principal question: can we update the netdev device address after it is already set during probe? I meant perform another:
> memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, hw->mac.addr, netdev->addr_len) up to demand

Updating MAC addr may work.
Even at the end of probe, it still got the wrong MAC address, delay is still needed.

Aaron

> 2. We need to work with Intel's firmware engineer/group and define the message/event: MAC addressis changed and should be updated.
> As I know MNG FW updates shadow registers. Since shadow registers are different from RAL/RAH registers - it could be a notification that the MAC address changed. Let's check it.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-13 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-02  4:51 [PATCH 1/2] igc: don't rd/wr iomem when PCI is removed Aaron Ma
2021-07-02  4:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] igc: wait for the MAC copy when enabled MAC passthrough Aaron Ma
2021-07-04  5:36   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Neftin, Sasha
2021-07-05  7:38     ` Aaron Ma
2021-07-05 11:54       ` Neftin, Sasha
2021-07-06  6:46         ` Aaron Ma
2021-07-08  4:24           ` Neftin, Sasha
2021-07-13 13:45             ` Aaron Ma [this message]
2021-07-14  9:13               ` Ruinskiy, Dima
2021-07-04 14:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] igc: don't rd/wr iomem when PCI is removed Pali Rohár
2021-07-05  7:23   ` Aaron Ma
2021-07-05 23:02   ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-07-06 14:23     ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-05  7:47 ` Dave Airlie
2021-07-06  6:42   ` Aaron Ma
2021-07-06 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-07-07 21:53   ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-07 22:10     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-07-08  2:04       ` Oliver O'Halloran
2021-07-08 15:45         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-07-18 16:31           ` Oliver O'Halloran
2021-07-18 22:50             ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-19  2:49               ` Oliver O'Halloran
2021-07-19  8:13                 ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-20  0:17                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-07-13 13:00 ` [PATCH v2] igc: fix page fault when thunderbolt is unplugged Aaron Ma
2021-08-04 12:06   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Fuxbrumer, Dvora

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