From: Atharva Tiwari <atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Atharva Tiwari <atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>,
Vincent MORVAN <vinc@42.fr>, Paul SAGE <paul.sage@42.fr>,
Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 22:36:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306170657.39384-1-atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Paul SAGE <paul.sage@42.fr>
On some systems (e.g. iMac 20,1 with BCM57766), the tg3 driver reads
a default placeholder mac address (00:10:18:00:00:00) from the
mailbox. The correct value on those systems are stored in the
'local-mac-address' property.
This patch, detect the default value and tries to retrieve
the correct address from the device_get_mac_address
function instead.
The patch has been tested on two different systems:
- iMac 20,1 (BCM57766) model which use the local-mac-address property
- iMac 13,2 (BCM57766) model which can use the mailbox,
NVRAM or MAC control registers
Co-developed-by: Vincent MORVAN <vinc@42.fr>
Signed-off-by: Vincent MORVAN <vinc@42.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul SAGE <paul.sage@42.fr>
Signed-off-by: Atharva Tiwari <atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- Wrapped commit message to 70 characters
- Removed BROADCOM_OUI constant
---
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
index 75f66587983d..b9950651b20c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
@@ -17030,6 +17030,14 @@ static int tg3_get_invariants(struct tg3 *tp, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
return err;
}
+static int tg3_is_default_mac_address(u8 *addr)
+{
+ u32 addr_high = (addr[0] << 16) | (addr[1] << 8) | addr[2];
+ u32 addr_low = (addr[3] << 16) | (addr[4] << 8) | addr[5];
+
+ return addr_high == 0x00001018 && addr_low == 0;
+}
+
static int tg3_get_device_address(struct tg3 *tp, u8 *addr)
{
u32 hi, lo, mac_offset;
@@ -17103,6 +17111,10 @@ static int tg3_get_device_address(struct tg3 *tp, u8 *addr)
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (tg3_is_default_mac_address(addr))
+ device_get_mac_address(&tp->pdev->dev, addr);
+
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 17:07 UTC|newest]
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2026-03-06 17:06 Atharva Tiwari [this message]
2026-03-10 16:16 ` [PATCH v2] tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property Simon Horman
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