[Bug 274092] if_smsc.c needs to use ether_gen_addr instead of read_random for more stable MAC address
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:37:53 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274092 --- Comment #18 from Mike Karels <karels@freebsd.org> --- (In reply to Patrick M. Hausen from comment #17) > Anyway what would be the result if we get this to work? As I have been arguing on the mailinglist the RPi foundation clearly documents that we should use the device's serial number to generate the MAC and nothing else for all RPi 3 and older. The result would be that the MAC address is stable after FreeBSD is installed and a hostid is generated. However, you argue that the RPi Foundation documents should control FreeBSD's implementation choices, even for a device that is not RPi specific. It seems to me quite wrong to implement an RPi-specific method in a non-RPi-specific driver. And the RPi Foundation is not very cooperative with others attempting to support RPi with other software. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.