[U-Boot] [PATCH] x86: galileo: Define mac addresses for the on-chip ethernet ports

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Apr 21 15:54:59 CEST 2015


Hi Bin,

On 20 April 2015 at 23:05, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not like other x86 chipset, there is no EEPROM for the ethernet
> controller on the Intel Quark SoC to retreive the mac address
> after power up. With pre-defined mac addresses, U-Boot boots up
> and will not show "Error: dwmac.90006000 address not set" message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  include/configs/galileo.h | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/configs/galileo.h b/include/configs/galileo.h
> index d4d0eb3..961d087 100644
> --- a/include/configs/galileo.h
> +++ b/include/configs/galileo.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
>  #define CONFIG_DESIGNWARE_ETH
>  #define CONFIG_DW_ALTDESCRIPTOR
>  #define CONFIG_PHYLIB
> +#define CONFIG_ETHADDR         00:02:b3:00:00:00
> +#define CONFIG_ETH1ADDR                00:02:b3:00:00:01

I recall this coming up before with another board - we are not
supposed to set a default MAC address since it may create inexplicable
conflicts on the network if an org two boards on the same network one
day. Can you just set an environment variable?

>
>  /* Environment configuration */
>  #define CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE           0x1000
> --
> 1.8.2.1
>

Regards,
Simon


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