[U-Boot-Users] EEPROM content and multiple NIC

Daniel Ann ktdann at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 07:35:06 CEST 2005


On 4/22/05, Kylo Ginsberg <kylo.ginsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Compounding the confusion is the god-awful bit-swapping method of
> access to the EEPROM.  And then someone at National who was either
> confused or had a sick sense of humor apparently provided EEPROM
> defaults for the Subsystem Vendor Id (0x2c) and Subsystem Device Ids
> (0x2e) that are bitswapped versions of the main Vendor Id (0x00) and
> Device Id (0x02).  Ugh.

I take it its an explanation right ? :)
Yeah.. Ugh indeed. I guess its that somebody who obviously had one
drink too many would know why then.

Interesting.. 


-- 
Daniel




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