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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards
在 2017-07-24 15:58,Maxime Ripard 写道:
> 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!

Sorry, but could you queue them to 4.13?

Otherwise 4.13 kernel release will have annoying random MAC problem,
which heavily affects headless usages.

> Maxime
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