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28-Mar-2015 |
adrian |
Begin moving support for board MAC addresses over to being explicitly defined.
A lot of these dinky atheros based MIPS boards don't have a nice, well,
anything consistent defining their MAC addresses for things.
The Atheros reference design boards will happily put MAC addresses
into the wifi module calibration data like they should, and individual
ethernet MAC addresses into the calibration area in flash.
That makes my life easy - "hint.arge.X.eeprommac=<addr>" reads from
that flash address to extract a MAC, and everything works fine.
However, aside from some very well behaved vendors (eg the Carambola 2
board), everyone else does something odd.
eg:
* a MAC address in the environment (eg ubiquiti routerstation/RSPRO)
that you derive arge0/arge1 MAC addresses from.
* a MAC address in flash that you derive arge0/arge1 MAC addresses from.
* The wifi devices having their own MAC addresses in calibration data,
like normal.
* The wifi devices having a fixed, default or garbage value for a MAC
address in calibration data, and it has to be derived from the
system MAC.
So to support this complete nonsense of a situation, there needs to be
a few hacks:
* The "board" MAC address needs to be derived from somewhere and squirreled
away. For now it's either redboot or a MAC address stored in calibration
flash.
* Then, a "map" set of hints to populate kenv with some MAC addresses
that are derived/local, based on the board address. Each board has
a totally different idea of what you do to derive things, so each
map entry has an "offset" (+ve or -ve) that's added to the board
MAC address.
* Then if_arge (and later, if_ath) should check kenv for said hint and
if it's found, use that rather than the EEPROM MAC address - which may
be totally garbage and not actually work right.
In order to do this, I've undone some of the custom redboot expecting
hacks in if_arge and the stuff that magically adds one to the MAC
address supplied by the board - instead, as I continue to test this
out on more hardware, I'll update the hints file with a map explaining
(a) where the board MAC should come from, and (b) what offsets to use
for each device.
The aim is to have all of the tplink, dlink and other random hardware
we run on have valid MAC addresses at boot, so (a) people don't get
random B:S:D:x:x:x ethernet MACs, and (b) the wifi MAC is valid
so it works rather than trying to use an invalid address that
actually upsets systems (think: multicast bit set in BSSID.)
Tested:
* TP-Link TL_WDR3600 - subsequent commits will add the hints map
and the if_ath support.
TODO:
* Since this is -HEAD, and I'm all for debugging, there's a lot of
printf()s in here. They'll eventually go under bootverbose.
* I'd like to turn the macaddr routines into something available
to all drivers - too many places hand-roll random MAC addresses
and parser stuff. I'd rather it just be shared code.
However, that'll require more formal review.
* More boards.
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