[U-Boot] [PATCH 09/14] net: Add ability to set MAC address via EEPROM

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Mon Nov 28 09:21:13 CET 2016


On 25.11.2016 16:30, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> This patch allows Kconfig to enable and set parameters to make it
> possible to read the MAC address from an EEPROM. The net core layer then
> uses this information to read MAC addresses from this EEPROM.
> 
> Besides the various tuneables as to how to access the eeprom (bus,
> address, addressing mode/length, 2 configurable that are EEPROM generic
> (e.g. SPI or some other form of access) which are:
> 
> NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_OFFSET, indicating where in the EEPROM the start of
> the MAC address is. The default is 8 allowing for 8 bytes before the MAC
> for other purposes (header MAGIC for example).
> 
> NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_CRC8, indicating the MAC is appended with a CRC8-CCIT
> checksum that should be verified.
> 
> Currently only I2C eeproms have been tested and thus only those options
> are available, but shouldn't be a limit. NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_SPI can be
> just as created and added.
> 
> The code currently first checks if there is a non-zero MAC address in
> the eeprom. If that fails to be the case, the read_rom_hwaddr can be
> used by a board to supply the MAC in other ways.
> 
> If both these fails, the other code is still in place to query the
> environent, which then can be used to override the hardware supplied
> data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
> ---
>  doc/README.enetaddr | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/net.h       | 14 ++++++++
>  net/Kconfig         | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/eth-uclass.c    |  9 +++--
>  net/eth_common.c    | 34 ++++++++++++++++++
>  net/eth_legacy.c    |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/README.enetaddr b/doc/README.enetaddr
> index 50e4899..89c1f7d 100644
> --- a/doc/README.enetaddr
> +++ b/doc/README.enetaddr
> @@ -47,6 +47,105 @@ Correct flow of setting up the MAC address (summarized):
>  Previous behavior had the MAC address always being programmed into hardware
>  in the device's init() function.
>  
> +--------
> + EEPROM
> +--------
> +
> +Boards may come with an EEPROM specifically to store configuration bits, such
> +as a MAC address. Using CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM enables this feature.
> +Depending on the board, the EEPROM may be connected on various methods, but
> +currently, only the I2C bus can be used via CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C.
> +
> +The following config options are available,
> +CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS is the I2C bus on which the eeprom is present.
> +CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_ADDR sets the address of the EEPROM, which
> +defaults to the very common 0x50. Small size EEPROM's generally use single byte
> +addressing but larger EEPROM's may use double byte addressing, which can be
> +configured using CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_ADDRLEN.
> +
> +Within the EEPROM, the MAC address can be stored on any arbitrary offset,
> +CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_OFFSET sets this to 8 as a default however, allowing
> +the first 8 bytes to be used for an optional data, for example a configuration
> +struct where the mac address is part of.
> +
> +Appending the 6 (ARP_HLEN) bytes is a CRC8 byte over the previous ARP_HLEN
> +bytes. Whether to check this CRC8 or not is dependent on
> +CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_CRC8.
> +
> +To keep things nicely aligned, a final 'reserved' byte is added to the mac
> +address + crc8 combo.
> +
> +A board may want to store more information in its eeprom, using the following
> +example layout, this can be achieved.
> +
> +struct mac_addr {
> +	uint8_t mac[ARP_HLEN];
> +	uint8_t crc8;
> +	uint8_t reserved;
> +};
> +
> +struct config_eeprom {
> +	uint32_t magic;
> +	uint8_t version;
> +	uint8_t reserved[2];
> +	uint8_t mac_cnt;
> +	struct mac_addr[mac_cnt];
> +};
> +
> +Filling this in:
> +struct config_eeprom eeprom = {
> +	.magic = { 'M', 'g', 'i', 'c' },
> +	.reserved = { 0x00, 0x00 },
> +	.mac_cnt = 2,
> +	.mac_addr = {
> +		{
> +			.mac = {
> +				0x01, 0x23, 0x45,
> +				0x67, 0x89, 0xab,
> +			},
> +			.crc8 = 0xbe,
> +			.reserved = 0x00,
> +		}, {
> +			.mac = {
> +				0xba, 0x98, 0x76,
> +				0x54, 0x32, 0x10,
> +			},
> +			.crc8 = 0x82,
> +			.reserved = 0x00,
> +		},
> +	},
> +};
> +
> +The eeprom content would look like this.
> +
> +00000000  4d 67 69 63 01 00 00 02  01 23 45 67 89 ab be 00 |Mgic.....#Eg....|
> +00000010  ba 98 76 54 32 10 82 00                          |..vT2...|
> +
> +This can be done from linux using the i2c-tools:
> +
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x08 0x01
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x09 0x23
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x0a 0x45
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x0b 0x67
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x0c 0x89
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x0d 0xab
> +i2cset I2CBUS 0x50 0x0e 0xbe
> +
> +Alternativly this can be done from the u-boot console as:
> +
> +u-boot> mm.b 0
> +00000000: 00 ? 01
> +00000001: 23 ? 23
> +00000002: 45 ? 45
> +00000003: 67 ? 67
> +00000004: 89 ? 89
> +00000005: ab ? ab
> +00000006: be ? be
> +00000007: 00 ? q
> +i2c dev I2CBUS
> +i2c write 0 50 8 7
> +i2c md 50 8
> +
>  -------
>   Usage
>  -------
> diff --git a/include/net.h b/include/net.h
> index 08f8af8..e50ab5d 100644
> --- a/include/net.h
> +++ b/include/net.h
> @@ -248,6 +248,20 @@ int eth_getenv_enetaddr(const char *name, uchar *enetaddr);
>  int eth_setenv_enetaddr(const char *name, const uchar *enetaddr);
>  
>  /**
> + * eeprom_read_enetaddr() - Read the hardware address from an eeprom
> + *
> + * This function tries to read the MAC address from an eeprom as can be read
> + * in docs/README.enetaddr.
> + *
> + * @index:	index of the interface to get the hwaddr for
> + * @enetaddr:	pointer for the found hwaddr. Needs to be atleast ARP_HLEN
> + * @return:	0 on success, non-zero is error status. Additionally hwaddr
> + *		is set to 00:00:00:00:00. This is also the case if
> + *		CONFIG_NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM is not set.
> + */
> +int eeprom_read_enetaddr(const int index, unsigned char *enetaddr);
> +
> +/**
>   * eth_setenv_enetaddr_by_index() - set the MAC address environment variable
>   *
>   * This sets up an environment variable with the given MAC address (@enetaddr).
> diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
> index 414c549..f699e1c 100644
> --- a/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/Kconfig
> @@ -7,6 +7,65 @@ menuconfig NET
>  
>  if NET
>  
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM
> +	bool "Get ethaddr from eeprom"
> +	help
> +	  Selecting this will try to get the Ethernet address from an onboard
> +	  EEPROM and set into the environment if and only if the environment
> +	  does currently not already hold a MAC address. For more information
> +	  see doc/README.enetaddr.
> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM
> +	bool "EEPROM on I2C bus"
> +	help
> +	  This switch enables checks for an EEPROM on the I2C bus. Naturally
> +	  this will only work if there is an actual EEPROM connected on the
> +	  I2C bus and the bus and device are properly configured via the
> +	  options below.
> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C
> +	int "I2C bus"
> +	default 0
> +	help
> +	  Select the bus on which the EEPROM is present, defaults to bus 0.
> +	  Remember to also make the selected bus available via I2Cn_ENABLE.
> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_ADDR
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C
> +	hex "EEPROM address"
> +	default 0x50
> +	help
> +	  Select the address of the EEPROM, defaults to address 0x50.
> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_ADDRLEN
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C
> +	int "EEPROM address length"
> +	default 1
> +	help
> +	  Number of bytes to be used for the I2C address length. Typically 1,
> +	  2 for large memories, 0 for register type devices with only one
> +	  register.
> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_OFFSET
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM
> +	int "EEPROM offset"
> +	default 8
> +	help
> +	  Select the byte offset of the MAC address within the page,
> +	  defaults to byte 8.

I would prefer to all these values to be in hex because i2c commands are
also taking values in hex.

> +
> +config NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_CRC8
> +	depends on NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM
> +	bool "Check CRC8 of MAC"
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Optionally, it is possible to run a CRC-8-CCITT check on the MAC
> +	  address. To do so, the MAC address is stored with a CRC8 byte append.
> +	  This option enables the CRC check of the MAC address against the CRC
> +	  byte.
> +

Would it be possible to have default n here?
I would guess that more boards don't have this CRC8 sums.

Thanks,
Michal





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