RE: [PATCH v6] r8152: Add support for setting pass through MAC address on RTL8153-AD

From: Mario_Limonciello
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 17:54:14 EST


> David,
>
> Did you have any more thoughts about this? I'm happy to make some other
> adjustments to the patch, if you have some recommendations.

Hi,

I just wanted to share that the maintenance BIOSes released for the Dell
platforms with Type-C this past week enables the MAC address pass
through feature in UEFI, so any network booted machines will offer
the auxiliary MAC to the DHCP server. In Windows a network booted
machine will always use auxiliary MAC now.

XPS 9350 (BIOS 1.4.4): http://goo.gl/7Sw2DZ

Please let me know what else can be done for this patch to make it
acceptable so we can have parity for Linux.

Thanks,