[PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: i.MX8MP: move MAC address description to common location

[Ahmad Fatoum]

On 11.01.23 21:00, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Ahmad,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, dem 11.01.2023 um 20:03 +0100 schrieb Ahmad Fatoum:
>> Hello Lucas,
>>
>> On 11.01.23 19:21, Lucas Stach wrote:
>>> All i.MX8MP boards should consult the common fuse locations for the
>>> MAC address of the network interfaces. Also add the second location
>>> for the EQOS network interface.
>>
>> Do we really want to extend use of this binding? The upstream kernel
>> DT already has nvmem-cells for the MAC addresses and we have support
>> for reading that out.
>>
> I thought about this too, but...
> 
>>  Only thing missing is the equivalent of
>>
>> Linux commit d0221a780cbc ("nvmem: imx-ocotp: add support for post processing")
>>
> This isn't the only thing missing. To handle the second MAC address via
> NMEM, we would need to add unaligned read/write support to the OCOTP
> driver. The currently used regmap_read/write_bulk API does only work
> with register aligned accesses. The benefit of NVMEM didn't look that
> tempting anymore when looking at the cost of the necessary OCOTP driver
> changes, so I choose to go with the more minimal change.

You can switch the driver over to use nvmem_regmap_register(), which will
take care of the alignment for you. I still think it's worth it.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> Regards,
> Lucas
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ahmad
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts                | 4 ----
>>>  arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dts | 4 ----
>>>  arch/arm/dts/imx8mp.dtsi                   | 1 +
>>>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>>> index d992b14882a3..28d8c5f9292e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>>> @@ -68,7 +68,3 @@
>>>  		reg = <0xe0000 0x20000>;
>>>  	};
>>>  };
>>> -
>>> -&ocotp {
>>> -	barebox,provide-mac-address = <&fec 0x640>;
>>> -};
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dts b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dts
>>> index c47e7285a703..6e81f58e2786 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dts
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dts
>>> @@ -53,7 +53,3 @@
>>>  		reg = <0xe0000 0x20000>;
>>>  	};
>>>  };
>>> -
>>> -&ocotp {
>>> -	barebox,provide-mac-address = <&fec 0x640>;
>>> -};
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp.dtsi
>>> index 5da79f13d339..379fa49d6042 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp.dtsi
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp.dtsi
>>> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>>>  feat: &ocotp {
>>>  	#feature-cells = <1>;
>>>  	barebox,feature-controller;
>>> +	barebox,provide-mac-address = <&fec 0x640 &eqos 0x650>;
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  &pgc_mipi_phy1 {
>>
> 
> 

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