Raspberry PI

[Warner Losh]

On Oct 31, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:

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> On 2012-10-30, at 9:23 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
>>>> 3. Ethernet mac address random change every time boot-up? It may due to
>>>> uboot or firmware issue - apologize if it's OT.
>>> It's FreeBSD problem that requires somewhat wider solution then hacking one network driver.
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>> Why aren't we just getting the MAC address from the FDT?  Isn't that how Linux passes it in?
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> The problem is not getting MAC address from u-boot but to deliver it to if_smsc in non-hackish way.
> We have several drivers that get their MAC addresses from boot loaders and I think we need to 
> unify the way they discover available addresses.

So we have/create a meta-data node for MAC, like we do for most other things?

Warner