Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:58:23 +0200 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards |
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On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:28:49AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote: > Allwinner A64 SoC has an EMAC which is used to provide Ethernet > function on several boards. > > The EMAC itself doesn't have a fixed MAC address, but the sunxi > mainline U-Boot have the ability to generate one based on the eFUSE > SID in the chip, and add the generated MAC address to the device > tree when booting. > > The MAC address setting step is based on the device tree's aliases, > and device tree nodes prefixed "ethernet" will get the MAC address > added. However, in several A64 boards' device tree, the alias is not > set up, so that the U-Boot won't set the MAC address. > > Add the ethernet0 aliases to these boards. > > I hope this patchset can be queued in 4.13, otherwise 4.13 kernels > won't get non-volatile MAC addresses, and will use random ones > instead, which is annoying to many users. > > Icenowy Zheng (3): > arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for BPi M64 EMAC node > arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for Pine64 EMAC node > arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for SoPine EMAC node
Applied all three, thanks! Maxime
-- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |