[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/boundarydevices: add mac parameter for BD-SDMAC in bootscript

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Aug 19 13:19:29 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:15:52 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Our new WiFi 802.11ac BT4.1 module (BD-SDMAC [1]) driver allows to
> override the wlan MAC address using a module parameter.
> 
> Since its driver is now included in our external repository [2], update
> the bootscript so it sets the parameter for that driver too.
> 
> As a FYI, $wlmac is based on Ethernet MAC address located in fuses.
> 
> [1] https://boundarydevices.com/product/bd_sdmac_wifi/
> [2] https://github.com/boundarydevices/buildroot-external-boundary
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
> ---
>  board/boundarydevices/common/6x_bootscript.txt | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Applied to master, thanks. However, I'm wondering why all this BD-SDMAC
WiFi support packages remain out of tree in your BR2_EXTERNAL. Would it
make sense to upstream them in Buildroot ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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