On 17.03.16 15:56, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> Le 17/03/2016 15:48, Guillaume Gardet a écrit :
>> Le 17/03/2016 15:40, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>
>>> On 17.03.16 15:25, Bill Merriam wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 23:21 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>> On 16.03.16 20:00, Bill Merriam wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 20:18 +0100, Dirk Müller wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2:/Staging/images/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (yeah, I know its the Pi2 path, I was lazy) contains an untested
>>>>>>> raspberrypi3 image. I already know that serial is broken, that seems
>>>>>>> to be an upstream issue (due to the changed clock frequencies).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't tested it further yet, need to buy some HDMI capable
>>>>>>> screen
>>>>>>> first. Let me know your findings.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Dirk
>>>>>> I have successfully installed this image:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2/images/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi3.armv7l-2016.03.09-Build5.2.raw.xz
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It has several issues with booting.  Uboot issues messages for a
>>>>>> while
>>>>>> and eventually comes to a prompt.  If I type "boot", it boots up.  At
>>>>> This is my fault again - as soon as the image got rebuilt with the
>>>>> fixed
>>>>> U-Boot package (that was stuck in Factory review for a week) this
>>>>> error
>>>>> should be gone.
>>>>>
>>>>>> some point I noticed in dmesg a complaint that the first partition
>>>>>> was
>>>>>> "dirty" and needed an fsck.  It is a FAT filesystem and fsck.fat
>>>>>> isn't
>>>>> That's weird. Sounds like a flushing bug during build?
>>>>>
>>>>>> installed.  I installed "dosfstools" and checked the file system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of the uboot messages complained that "usbethaddr" was not set.
>>>>> I don't think we support the usb mac stuff quite yet. If you have
>>>>> great
>>>>> ideas how to make it work with upstream U-Boot, we're more than
>>>>> happy to
>>>>> see patches :).
>>>>>
>>>>>> Every time it boots it chooses a new MAC address which causes the
>>>>>> dhcp
>>>>>> server to give it a new address every time.  I set that variable
>>>>>> and did
>>>>>> a saveenv.  I suppose that is supposed to happen somehow during the
>>>>>> first boot.
>>>>> The way it works without U-Boot is that the RPi bootloader
>>>>> generates the
>>>>> mac address from the pi serial number. We should probably do the
>>>>> same in
>>>>> U-Boot.
>>>>>
>>>>> IIRC it then gets passed to the kernel using the kernel command line.
>>>>> That's a horrible interface, as it breaks any integration with boot
>>>>> loaders (like grub2). So if we want to move this to an efi based boot
>>>>> mechanism, we need to instead inject the mac address into the device
>>>>> tree. I'm not quite sure where though - usb is not described in dt.
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are also messages about variables "bootfile" and "pxeuuid"
>>>>>> being
>>>>>> missing.  Variable "scan_dev_for_efi" is a script that tries to set
>>>>>> variable "boot_prefixes" but doesn't get it right.
>>>>> That's the bug that was fixed in u-boot and stuck in review. Basically
>>>>> the bootfile definition got included in the scan_dev_for_efi variable
>>>>> while it should've been its own variable. I simply forgot the null
>>>>> terminator.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I will read u-boot documentation and try to figure it out but if
>>>>>> somebody fixes it I can move on to something else.
>>>>> That leaves the mac address thing to fix :).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>>>> The serial number is available in the One Time Programmable memory.
>>>> http://elinux.org/RPI_vcgencmd_usage
>>>>
>>>> vcgencmd otp_dump |grep 28: |cut -b 4-
>>>>
>>>> The MAC address seems to be RPI's prefix b8:27:eb plus the last 3 bytes
>>>> of the serial.
>>> This big problem is not how to fetch the 3 bytes. It's how to pass them
>>> all the way from u-boot via fdt to the kernel and have the kernel
>>> properly use it as the mac address for the usb ethernet adapter.
>>
>> You may ask on u-boot mailing list. I think u-boot is able to do it
>> more or less automatically.
> 
> Have a look at fdt_fixup_ethernet(...) function.

That only works for devices listed in device tree though, right? The eth
adapter is attached to USB which doesn't list its devices in dt.


Alex
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