From nobody Wed Sep 20 20:09:58 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4RrV4y6PnFz4v6h5 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmh@hausen.com) Received: from mail2.pluspunkthosting.de (mail2.pluspunkthosting.de [217.29.33.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4RrV4y5GrBz4G1m for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmh@hausen.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from smtpclient.apple (87.138.185.145) by mail2.pluspunkthosting.de (Axigen) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPSA id 02541E; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:10:09 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3731.700.6\)) Subject: Re: Getting a stable MAC address for a RPI CM3+ with ue0 interface From: "Patrick M. Hausen" In-Reply-To: <84C20AD4-1F37-414E-8808-60A2C9B621D9@karels.net> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:09:58 +0200 Cc: Mark Millard , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <4BC49AD6-10DA-407C-B239-5F637CEA094C@hausen.com> References: <3C1032FF-B914-4863-8A03-759A8B4BE216@hausen.com> <77E70D30-8E7D-42DC-A041-3A783E1C6908@yahoo.com> <5205C76E-BAB4-4AB7-8A03-1E8A2D4353BB@hausen.com> <84C20AD4-1F37-414E-8808-60A2C9B621D9@karels.net> To: Mike Karels X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3731.700.6) X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16188, ipnet:217.29.32.0/20, country:DE] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4RrV4y5GrBz4G1m Hi Mike, > Am 20.09.2023 um 22:02 schrieb Mike Karels : > There is a routine called ether_gen_addr(), which will generate an > Ethernet MAC based on the hostid and the interface name, both of which > are reasonably stable. Not very many drivers use it though. It > would probably be an improvement. That reads like it's an appropriate "FreeBSD way" to tackle this. >> Or am I misreading that? I though that the Pi was *the* aarch64 platform, >> at least in numbers ... > > In numbers, probably. In support, no. Puzzled - which platform is? Kind regards, Patrick