Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1694520

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

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

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io> - 2017-07-22 04:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for SoPine EMAC node Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io> - 2017-07-22 04:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-07-24 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards icenowy@aosc.io - 2017-07-25 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2017-07-25 05:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-07-25 16:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io> - 2017-07-26 02:00 +0200
            Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2017-07-26 06:20 +0200

csiph-web