Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:20:29 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> Cc: Kang Yin Su <cantona@cantona.net>, "freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raspberry PI Message-ID: <37AD7586-F0FA-4E16-91C4-9E32DD7E3973@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <AF088547-1CE9-43EC-A568-DFFCE8FBE3CA@bluezbox.com> References: <CAHjFwoCv0mdzgLOxn7Ym0yg3WZxFJfCx9cesDbMzq5ihFA7ZVQ@mail.gmail.com> <op.wmzi1ceb8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> <CAHjFwoBzMpeWV7ULz9L1RHfgZ30NprKLgFf9-RhVLQ-=b=w19A@mail.gmail.com> <CAHjFwoAK%2B_uvgkv9apNJd2GOdXtDGCiGo4LwaAxqeqkKh62a8A@mail.gmail.com> <50909DBE.2060408@bluezbox.com> <F42A77B3-53C4-49A9-AFCB-BEC7E3354D2A@bsdimp.com> <AF088547-1CE9-43EC-A568-DFFCE8FBE3CA@bluezbox.com>
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On Oct 31, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: >=20 > On 2012-10-30, at 9:23 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: >>>> 3. Ethernet mac address random change every time boot-up? It may = due to >>>> uboot or firmware issue - apologize if it's OT. >>> It's FreeBSD problem that requires somewhat wider solution then = hacking one network driver. >>=20 >> Why aren't we just getting the MAC address from the FDT? Isn't that = how Linux passes it in? >=20 >=20 > The problem is not getting MAC address from u-boot but to deliver it = to if_smsc in non-hackish way. > We have several drivers that get their MAC addresses from boot loaders = and I think we need to=20 > unify the way they discover available addresses. So we have/create a meta-data node for MAC, like we do for most other = things? Warner
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