Hi Martin,
> I reworked the commit message because I noticed the upstream Linux kernel has
> a
> difference with the Raspberry Pi fork of the kernel regarding the algorithm
> used to determine the MAC address of the smsc95xx.
So looking at this on an original 3B because that's what I had booted
I reworked the commit message because I noticed the upstream Linux kernel has a
difference with the Raspberry Pi fork of the kernel regarding the algorithm
used to determine the MAC address of the smsc95xx.
There is no smsc95xx.macaddr in the upstream kernel, and using the upstream
kernel is
Raspberry Pi B models before model 4 don't have an EEPROM nor an OTP to
store the permanent factory MAC address of the NIC.
So the firmware that runs initially computes the factory MAC address of
the board and patches the DTB to give that information to the next
stage.
The MAC is put in the
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