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> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-snps-arc mailing list > linux-snps-arc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.infradead.org_mailman_listinfo_linux-2Dsnps-2Darc&d=DwICAg&c=DPL6_X_6JkXFx7AXWqB0tg&r=ZlJN > 1MriPUTkBKCrPSx67GmaplEUGcAEk9yPtCLdUXI&m=pEe31Mq4FC20ZBQ1SMGdCpesPmQFyaQCdpY9-N_aWRc&s=lwI7vTqAmbVPHdfMz_FlOzfBDvtYCQDL-6s-Z2FFr_Y&e= -- Eugeniy Paltsev
