Re: Indigo R3000, Indigo R4000 and Indy R5000

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> According to these PR, I believe that NetBSD/sgimips is going to be alright.
> Great, that's really awesome work! Much obliged.

Yes, agreed. Thanks for the work.

> Not sure why, but the MAC address of the sq0 device is all 0 
> (00:00:00:00:00:00) as soon as the kernel starts.

Could that be because of the same known-issue that happens with the Indy? 
Ie.. if the battery dies and the system sits long enough, the MAC is lost 
and has to be re-set with a rather painful procedure.

> The MAC address looks OK in the PROM monitor though and netbooting 
> actually works as expected from there: Ethernet address is ---- 
> 08:00:69:11:22:33

Hmmm... that seems to indicate that it's a software issue. Okay, 
nevermind.

I had an R4k Indigo for a while, but I had too many SGI's and had to shed 
a few. Nowadays it's only the O2+, Indy, and Tezro in my collection.

Thanks,
   Swift