[PATCH v3 0/3] Read MAC address through NVMEM for sama7g5ek

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024, at 16:06, Andrei.Simion at microchip.com wrote:
> On 28.06.2024 11:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, even with this logic in place, users
>> are better off just having the boot loader read the EEPROM
>> and storing the MAC address in the in-memory dtb as we do
>> on other platforms.
>
> Our boot chain is ROM BOOT -> AT91Bootstrap -> U-Boot -> Linux Kernel. 
> U-Boot is the stage where we set up the MAC address.
> We can skip U-Boot and use the following boot chain ROM BOOT -> 
> AT91Boostrap -> Linux Kernel. 

Right, I can see how that is useful. Can you add that description
in the patch?

> This patch set is useful for this scenario and also for redundancy (if 
> something related with NET/EEPROM fails in U-Boot).

Not sure if redundancy is what we want the boot loader level ;-)

    Arnd