[U-Boot] [PATCHv6 12/28] net: Add ability to set MAC address via EEPROM

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Mon May 15 08:18:58 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:02:28AM +0200, 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>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig                |  8 +--
>  configs/A10-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig       |  1 -
>  configs/A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC_defconfig |  1 -
>  configs/A20-OLinuXino-Lime2_defconfig      |  1 -
>  configs/A20-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig       |  1 -
>  configs/A20-OLinuXino_MICRO_defconfig      |  1 -
>  doc/README.enetaddr                        | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/net.h                              | 14 +++++
>  net/Kconfig                                | 59 +++++++++++++++++++
>  net/eth-uclass.c                           | 42 +++++++------
>  net/eth_common.c                           | 37 ++++++++++++
>  net/eth_legacy.c                           |  2 +
>  12 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> index be060b65dc..cf5af4fe18 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
> @@ -479,14 +479,14 @@ config I2C0_ENABLE
>  
>  config I2C1_ENABLE
>  	bool "Enable I2C/TWI controller 1"
> -	default n
> +	default y if (NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS = 1)
>  	select CMD_I2C
>  	---help---
>  	See I2C0_ENABLE help text.
>  
>  config I2C2_ENABLE
>  	bool "Enable I2C/TWI controller 2"
> -	default n
> +	default y if (NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS = 2)
>  	select CMD_I2C
>  	---help---
>  	See I2C0_ENABLE help text.
> @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ config I2C2_ENABLE
>  if MACH_SUN6I || MACH_SUN7I
>  config I2C3_ENABLE
>  	bool "Enable I2C/TWI controller 3"
> -	default n
> +	default y if (NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS = 3)
>  	select CMD_I2C
>  	---help---
>  	See I2C0_ENABLE help text.
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ endif
>  if MACH_SUN7I
>  config I2C4_ENABLE
>  	bool "Enable I2C/TWI controller 4"
> -	default n
> +	default y if (NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM_I2C_BUS = 4)
>  	select CMD_I2C
>  	---help---
>  	See I2C0_ENABLE help text.
> diff --git a/configs/A10-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig b/configs/A10-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig
> index ec16a44fbd..d4513144eb 100644
> --- a/configs/A10-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/A10-OLinuXino-Lime_defconfig
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONFIG_DRAM_CLK=480
>  CONFIG_DRAM_EMR1=4
>  CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ=912000000
>  CONFIG_MMC0_CD_PIN="PH1"
> -CONFIG_I2C1_ENABLE=y

Didn't that just remove the option if NET_ETHADDR_EEPROM is disabled
(which is its default) ?

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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