On Thursday 24 March 2011, Andy Green wrote:

Introduce a generic helper function that can set a MAC address using
data from the OMAP unique CPU ID register.

For comparison purposes this produces a MAC address of

  2e:40:70:f0:12:06

for the ethernet device on my Panda.


Note that this patch requires the fix patch for CPU ID register
indexes previously posted to linux-omap, otherwise the CPU ID is
misread on Panda by the existing function to do it.  This patch
is already on linux-omap.

"OMAP2+:Common CPU DIE ID reading code reads wrong registers for OMAP4430"
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b235e007831dbf57710e59cd4a120e2f374eecb9

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <redacted>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

TI folks: While this is a working solution, I still think it would
be good to get an officially sanctioned method that allows the creation
of a IEEE 802 MAC address in a range assigned to TI instead of using
an address from the locally administered range.

Is that something that can be done?

	Arnd