Re: [PATCH] ARC: AXS10x/HSDK: Allow U-Boot to pass MAC-address to the kernel

[Eugeniy Paltsev]

Hi Vineet,

On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 21:58 +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 08/02/2018 03:19 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > Otherwise kernel uses random MAC which is not very conveniet.
> 
> Curious what exactly is the issue - why does the user care what MAC is assigned ?
> 
> > With that change in place use might set desired MAC in U-Boot
> > with "setenv ethaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66", save environment and
> > then from boot to boot the same MAC will be used by the kernel.
> > 
> 
> And what if one is running without uboot - it will resort to all zeros vs. random
> yet working MAC ?
> 

If one is running without u-boot - it will resort to random MAC as we don't treat 
"00:00:00:00:00:00" as a valid Ethernet address.

Look at following link for more details.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc8/source/include/linux/etherdevice.h#L184


BTW:
Tested-by: Evgeniy Paltsev <paltsev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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