Missing eth1addr for Banana Pi BPI-R3

[Leith Bade]

Hi Daniel,

> When using OpenWrt, we are dealing with this differently:
> The random address generated by Linux is made persistent on first boot
> for both ethernet devices:
>
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/mediatek/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/99_fwenv-store-ethaddr.sh;h=e9cb4f921d9aedd82550d0cc8935687135ec83a3;hb=HEAD
>
> And eventhough U-Boot at this point knows nothing about there being more
> than one Ethernet MAC it still sets the address stored in eth1addr for
> the Ethernet MAC pointed to by the 'ethernet1' alias.
>
> However, to let U-Boot do that for you, we would need to change the
> Ethernet driver in U-Boot to expose all MACs rather than just one of
> them.

That is an interesting workaround, I will try it out.

In the meantime I managed to configure systemd-networkd to assign a
permanent MAC address.

It is unfortunate that these boards don't come with preallocated MAC
addresses which would remove the need for random ones.

Thanks,
Leith Bade