On Fri, Jun 28, 2024, at 16:06, Andrei.Simion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 28.06.2024 11:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> As far as I can tell, even with this logic in place, users
>> are better off just having the boot loader read the EEPROM
>> and storing the MAC address in the in-memory dtb as we do
>> on other platforms.
>
> Our boot chain is ROM BOOT -> AT91Bootstrap -> U-Boot -> Linux Kernel.
> U-Boot is the stage where we set up the MAC address.
> We can skip U-Boot and use the following boot chain ROM BOOT ->
> AT91Boostrap -> Linux Kernel.
Right, I can see how that is useful. Can you add that description
in the patch?
> This patch set is useful for this scenario and also for redundancy (if
> something related with NET/EEPROM fails in U-Boot).
Not sure if redundancy is what we want the boot loader level ;-)
Arnd
