ath79: mikrotik mac issue

[Koen Vandeputte]

Hi Roger,

An important detail:
I'm testing using kernel 5.10 :-)

Regards,

Koen

On 18.04.21 19:00, Roger Pueyo Centelles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, no clue. I am getting MAC addresses correctly assigned on a
> MikroTik RB922UAGS-5HPacD running OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r16574-f7e00d81bc.
>
> As expected, random MAC addresses appear for both eth0 and eth1 on a
> fresh boot after flashing with "sysupgrade -v -n. At around ~40 seconds
> uptime, the network is activated with the correct MAC addresses enabled
> (same as in /etc/config/network):
>
> eth1: /sys/firmware/mikrotik/hard_config/mac_base
> eth0: /sys/firmware/mikrotik/hard_config/mac_base+1
> wlan0: /sys/firmware/mikrotik/hard_config/mac_base+2
>
> The behaviour is correct on rebooting or reflashing.
>
> Roger
>
> El 16/4/21 a les 17:04, Koen Vandeputte ha escrit:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I found another interesting issue testing on a rb922
>> The board gets a random mac on each boot.
>>
>> This is normal and should be automatically corrected by 02_network
>> afterwards when hard_config is available, but it seems it's not
>> getting applied correctly.
>> Debugging the 02_network script shows that the actual value is
>> properly fetched from hard_config, but it's not getting applied for
>> some reason ..
>> /etc/board.json shows the correct ones, but the interfaces still carry
>> the random MAC.
>>
>> Judging by the flow in the script, I guess this issue will be present
>> on all ath79 Mikrotik targets.
>>
>> Anyone got a clue?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Koen
>>