netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 10/35] brcmfmac: firmware: Allow platform to override macaddr

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Message-ID: <199f0a6d-f80d-1600-842d-44fba9b7d5fc@broadcom.com>
Date:   Sat, 8 Jan 2022 21:14:19 +0100
From:   Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@...ineon.com>,
        Wright Feng <wright.feng@...ineon.com>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
Cc:     Sven Peter <sven@...npeter.dev>,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>,
        Mark Kettenis <kettenis@...nbsd.org>,
        Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@...adcom.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
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        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
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        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/35] brcmfmac: firmware: Allow platform to override
 macaddr

On 1/4/2022 8:26 AM, Hector Martin wrote:
> On Device Tree platforms, it is customary to be able to set the MAC
> address via the Device Tree, as it is often stored in system firmware.
> This is particularly relevant for Apple ARM64 platforms, where this
> information comes from system configuration and passed through by the
> bootloader into the DT.
> 
> Implement support for this by fetching the platform MAC address and
> adding or replacing the macaddr= property in nvram. This becomes the
> dongle's default MAC address.
> 
> On platforms with an SROM MAC address, this overrides it. On platforms
> without one, such as Apple ARM64 devices, this is required for the
> firmware to boot (it will fail if it does not have a valid MAC at all).

What overrides what. Can you elaborate a bit?

Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
> ---
>   .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c    | 29 +++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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