I?ve only just joined cctalk, so apologies for the delayed response to this query from
May, but I thought the information might be useful to others in future.
I?m the person working on emulating MIPS workstations in MAME recently, and I?m a fair way
through getting the Rx3230 model to a fully working state (Rx2030 is already working as of
last month).
For the MIPS Rx3230 systems, which use an M48T02, the mac address should be in the first 6
bytes of NVRAM. You can read/write the NVRAM through the boot monitor using the ?g? (get)
and ?p? (put) commands. You also need to provide the ?-b? argument to specify byte width,
and the relevant address. The NVRAM is mapped at 0x1d000000-0x1d001fff in the physical
address space, but must also set the high bit to access it through kseg0. Each 32-bit word
in that range corresponds to a single byte in the NVRAM, so the resulting commands will be
something like:
* g -b 0x9d000003 (read first byte of NVRAM)
* g -b 0x9d000007 (read second byte of NVRAM)
* ...
Or conversely:
* p -b 0x9d000003 0xff (write 0xff to first byte of NVRAM)
I haven?t tried to decode the rest of the NVRAM for the Rx3230 at this point (although
most of the monitor variables seem to be at offset 0x600-0x6a7), but at least I can see
those are the bytes that are read from NVRAM and then written to the mac address of the
LANCE, and setting them to a valid address makes the network layer in MAME behave as
expected.
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Pat.