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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:58:23 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards
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
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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