[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 08/13] usb: gadget: ether: Provide a way to read MAC address
Vignesh R
vigneshr at ti.com
Mon Jun 19 11:03:45 UTC 2017
Hi Lukasz,
On Thursday 15 June 2017 10:28 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 06/14/2017 02:24 PM, Vignesh R wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 13 June 2017 07:36 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On 06/13/2017 02:10 PM, Vignesh R wrote:
>>>> Provide a way to read MAC address for usb_ether device from board
>>>> function. Board files can override board_set_usbnet_devaddr() to
>>>> populate MAC address to be used by usb_ether as device address.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
>>>
>>> This patch is totally unrelated to this series.
>>
>> This series converts dwc3 peripheral to device model and the best way to
>> test this on TI platform to use it on ether gadget and test RNDIS boot.
>> Hence, I had to do patches 8 to 13. Therefore I posted them together for
>> completeness, if somebody wanted to test this out.
>
> Testing is great, but this is probably a fix and it's unrelated to the
> series anyway.
>
>>> Moreover, just set eth*addr using setenv() to achieve the same iirc .
>>>
>>
>> eth*addr is used for regular ethernet interface and usually set by
>> regular ethernet driver, but I could not find a way to set MAC address
>> for usb ethernet interface
>> Board file will now override board_set_usbnet_devaddr() to read MAC and
>> then call setenv()
>
> Lukasz should be able to jump in and help.
>
Any preference on how to handle this?
Basically, I need a way to pass MAC address to usb_ether driver. MAC
address is available in specific efuse registers. Previously, this was
handled by board_eth_init(), this is no longer available when using DM
based ethernet driver.
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Regards
Vignesh
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