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

[icenowy]

å 2017-07-24 15:58ïMaxime Ripard åéï
> 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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