[U-Boot] [u-boot PATCH v3 7/8] ARM: k2g: setup PRU ethernet MAC addresses

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:04:15PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08/02/17 13:51, Igor Grinberg wrote:
> > Hi Roger,
> > 
> > On 02/08/17 10:51, Roger Quadros wrote:
> >> Hi Igor,
> >>
> >> On 07/02/17 09:52, Igor Grinberg wrote:
> >>> Hi Roger,
> >>>
> >>> On 02/06/17 11:36, Roger Quadros wrote:
> >>>> PRU ethernet MAC address range is present in the
> >>>> board EEPROM. Parse it and setup eth?addr
> >>>> environment variables.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  board/ti/ks2_evm/board_k2g.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/board/ti/ks2_evm/board_k2g.c b/board/ti/ks2_evm/board_k2g.c
> >>>> index 40edbaa..a738dd2 100644
> >>>> --- a/board/ti/ks2_evm/board_k2g.c
> >>>> +++ b/board/ti/ks2_evm/board_k2g.c
> >>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> >>>>  #include <asm/arch/psc_defs.h>
> >>>>  #include <asm/arch/mmc_host_def.h>
> >>>>  #include "mux-k2g.h"
> >>>> +#include "../common/board_detect.h"
> >>>>  
> >>>>  #define SYS_CLK		24000000
> >>>>  
> >>>> @@ -149,6 +150,24 @@ int board_early_init_f(void)
> >>>>  }
> >>>>  #endif
> >>>>  
> >>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT
> >>>> +int board_late_init(void)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +#if !defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) && defined(CONFIG_TI_I2C_BOARD_DETECT)
> >>>> +	int rc;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	rc = ti_i2c_eeprom_am_get(CONFIG_EEPROM_BUS_ADDRESS,
> >>>> +			CONFIG_EEPROM_CHIP_ADDRESS);
> >>>> +	if (rc)
> >>>> +		printf("ti_i2c_eeprom_init failed %d\n", rc);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	board_ti_set_ethaddr(1);
> >>>
> >>> What if the MAC address has already been set in the environment?
> >>
> >> by whom?
> >> At least as of now nobody is setting ethadddr1 on the k2g-ice board.
> > 
> > Well, for example by user... and it is eth1addr.
> 
> OK, I understand now.
> > 
> >>
> >>> AFAIR, the MAC address in the environment has a higher precedence
> >>> than others.
> >>> May be I missed this, but I don't remember any discussion about changing
> >>> this assumption.
> >>> So, if the assumption is still correct, you shouldn't change the MAC in the env.
> >>
> >> I agree with you. I saw Olliver's "Retrieve MAC address from EEPROM" series.
> >> However, that may not apply to TI boards yet because:
> >> -the SoC's ethernet devices MAC addresses are stored in the SoC registers.
> >> -the PRU ethernet MAC addresses which this patch is setting are stored in
> >> EEPROM but they are not used at u-boot at all.
> >>
> >> I'm open to ideas if we can do what we're doing in a better way.
> > 
> > I think Tom's idea of a common function or may be a change to
> > eth_setenv_enetaddr_*() functions that will handle the precedence
> > is very sensible for such cases. 
> 
> Yes, this looks fine to me. Maybe there should be 2 functions? One which overrides
> and one which doesn't?

What's the usecase for the overrides one?  If the user wants to go back
to the stored ones, env default -f -a ; saveenv ; reset will do it.

-- 
Tom
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