From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751507AbaHOTDV (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:03:21 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.232]:9786 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751122AbaHOTDR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:03:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:03:14 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Markus Pargmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, LKML , Russell King - ARM Linux , Mugunthan V N , Vaibhav Hiremath , Robert Nelson , Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: Random MAC address on my BeagleBone White Message-ID: <20140815150314.60d01877@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20140815184911.GJ17027@pengutronix.de> References: <20140815134221.08c546a0@gandalf.local.home> <20140815184911.GJ17027@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:49:11 +0200 Markus Pargmann wrote: > Hi Steven, > > The am335x SoC already has 4 registers which contain two unique vendor > MAC addresses, so they should be used automatically instead of a random > one. > > As you mentioned above, I sent a series to read and use those addresses > in the linux kernel. There were some problems with the series which I > fixed to send a new version of the series, but I didn't send it yet. I > will try to resend it tomorrow and Cc you. It would be great if you > could test it. > Yep, but I don't work on weekends (Chief Home Officer's orders). Well, I should say, I don't do computer work on weekends. House work on the other hand, plenty (Again, the CHO's orders). It will have to wait till Monday. > As far as I know, barebox also works with the beaglebone white and it > should set the correct MAC address as well. So if you need the same IP > address in linux as in the bootloader, you could try barebox. Maybe I'll give it a try. But if your stuff works I'll be fine with that. Thanks! Hopefully I'll be using this board in my ktest tutorial at ELCEU in October. -- Steve