Strange, I didn't get that. You can always fix it to give the right order though.

Is this a solution for you now? Do you really need a new firmware now that a two-line fix does it all for you?

By the way this kind of hackability is exactly why we chose Open Firmware and keep pushing it now. U-Boot isn't nearly as flexible (certainly not programmatically as efika.forth or pegasos.forth is) - you can change the MAC address, sure, but can you do it based on the environment and device tree? No :)

I am working on a pegasos.forth update which fixes the MAC address and also pushes these values into the device tree (I worked out a clever hack based on the mac-address word which returns a 6-byte string "Bogus!" - you can overwrite it and then use it the word again directly as input to encode-bytes)
We still don't like people using beta firmwares for the OTHER pertinent reason that while it may make life easier under certain circumstances it makes testing Linux and MorphOS support absolutely impossible.

I don't even run the beta firmware. Nobody on the MorphOS team does. Peter does, Olaf Hering at SUSE does; I wish they would stop, though, because they simply are not seeing the problems the rest of the world have, and therefore are not motivated to produce solutions for 99.999% of the users out there who run the 20040811 firmware.

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Did you ever read my answer to Charlie? :-) No, I don't run the beta firmware any more (not in the past two years) and neither does Olaf to my best knowledge. I must admit, that the only reason is testing (using the same fw as the rest of the world), as for the rest, the beta is far more superior from a Linux users point of view (fully working yaboot support, even for CD). Broken Amiga FS support is not a problem for me :-D

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So the only holdover "within the company" is Sven, then :)
I'm sure it would be for Charlie if he ever ran across it :)

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Try
See if it makes any difference at all..

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I just tried the updated script and it made a difference:

It works ! (Tested with Cold and warmstarts, the MAC doesn't jump any more.)

Although your poking-scripting-fix brought back memories from C64-Action-Replay times, it's a simple way to circument a unloved firmware update.
ThnX a lot ;-)

Cool :)
But that's the best thing about it! :D

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