u-boot in impish has unstable mac address

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

u-boot in impish has unstable mac address

Somehow the board that is usually SiFive mac address range of 70:b3:d5:92:f4:40 has become a6:d4:5b:7a:a0:a7

Ideally mac address should be stable, and in the range from the manufacturer.

70:B3:D5:92:F0:00/36 SiFive

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

The ethernet address of the HiFive Unmatched board is determined here:

board/sifive/unmatched/hifive-platform-i2c-eeprom.c:534:
eth_env_set_enetaddr("ethaddr", e.mac_addr);

According to the code in hifive-platform-i2c-eeprom.c you can write the MAC address to the device eeprom using the mac command:

mac read_eeprom
mac mac_address 01:02:03:04:05:06
max write_eeprom

I have not tested this!

The code first appeared in commit 946afdf6209e ("board: sifive: unmatched: add initial support for a platform ID EEPROM") dated June 30th, 2021 and is not contained in release v2021.07.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

whould be fixed by 2021.07+dfsg-0ubuntu2

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

New images look fine.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

unmatched images look fine.

unleashed still fail to boot in CI lab, suspecting lack of stable mac address as well. Or something else. It seems like meta-sifive upstream have dropped all unleashed patches, but it seems like we are regressing in functionality.

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

We don't spin images for the Unleashed board anymore. So we should close this bug report.