Hi, in my experience using armbian (so a different distribution) on odroidc1 I see the mac is changing every time I do a new install but it is kept constant between reboots: so it looks like something that can be handled somewhere above the hardware-kernel layer.
*Ciao Piero Il giorno dom 24 feb 2019 alle ore 21:55 Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com> ha scritto: > > I have seen Anand's your question in [0]: > > only issue is I have is the each time their is random MAC address so I > > get new IP from dhcp server. > > How can I avoid this. I have tried to enable eFuse driver but with no > > success. > > u-boot on the 64-bit SoCs can read the MAC address from the eFuse and > pass it (via the .dtb) to the kernel. > This requires an ethernet0 alias in the mainline .dts though, see [1] > for and example. > > I'm not sure if this also works with the older u-boot on the 32-bit SoCs. > if it doesn't then there's a nvmem-cells binding for all Ethernet > controllers: [2] (please note that the function implementing this > binding was recently renamed: [3]) > as far as I can tell the stmmac driver doesn't support the nvmem-cells > based binding yet > > Anand, if you want to work on this: feel free to do so! > I have the SDHC MMC driver and a discussion about the power-domain > drivers on my TODO-list, so I'm pretty busy at the moment. > > > Regards > Martin > > > [0] > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2019-February/010464.html > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7c36209c46c4d162202b65eed2e66962ad8c3c1 > [2] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9217e566bdee4583d0a9ea4879c8f5e004886eac > [3] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=afa64a72b862a7a9d04f8d07fba632eaf06b23f8 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-amlogic mailing list > linux-amlo...@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-amlogic -- Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
