[fedora-arm] Stable MAC address on the Cubietruck (again)

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> I read the lengthy thread about unstable MAC addresses on the
> Cubietruck from September.  However I'm still a bit confused about
> what I need to do to get a stable MAC address.
>
> Firstly my CT appears to have a non-zero SID:
>
>   01c23800: 16516501 80808955 54494848 0500f05c    .eQ.U...HHIT\...
>
> I'm using the following uboot and kernel, both supplied by Fedora 21
> as far as I know:
>
>   U-Boot 2014.04 (Aug 19 2014 - 00:11:39) Allwinner Technology
>   1:      Fedora (3.17.4-301.fc21.armv7hl+lpae) 21 (Twenty One)
>
> There are a few peculiar warnings at boot (see end of email), but
> otherwise it appears to work.
>
> However I don't get a stable MAC address.  It seems completely
> random on each boot.  Today I've had:
>
>   96:0c:ca:a9:c7:08
>   7e:68:c9:80:b8:01
>   ca:ea:b6:64:7b:5b
>
> Any ideas?

You need the 2014.10 u-boot, from the look above you have 2014.04, the
AllWinner support for A10/13/20 is all upstream as of 2014.10 so you
should just use the builds we ship in Fedora 21+ and you'll have all
you need.

Peter