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| From | icenowy@aosc.io |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards |
| Date | 2017-07-25 05:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <u6Yop-5Rw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <u5Sl3-4u2-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <u6Grw-1RH-17@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
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[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
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