Understood. Ultimately, I'll use this board as a router, and stable mac addresses would be better than random. So I would be interested to try your atag -> device tree patches. Have they been posted somewhere I can find them? Thanks Willy. Ethan On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:14:23PM -0700, Ethan Tuttle wrote: >> Just booted with the patch on my Mirabox. Both interfaces work! >> Thank you Thomas. >> >> One remaining issue is that the interface which uBoot didn't configure >> is still getting a random mac address: >> >> mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: Using hardware mac address f0:ad:4e:01:dc:97 >> mvneta d0074000.ethernet eth1: Using random mac address d2:35:dd:c8:99:48 >> >> This is on 3.11 plus Thomas' patch, which includes the previous fix to >> "read MAC address from hardware when available". Perhaps that fix >> isn't working with the phylib? > > No this is unrelated. The MAC isn't configured by the boot loader when > the NIC is not used. U-boot only passes it as a non-standard ATAG. I > have some patches to reinject the non-standard atags into the device > tree if you absolutely need this, but they're not suited for mainline > inclusion from what I understood last time I proposed them (they use > a marvell-specific atag header). > > Regards, > Willy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html