From: Paul SAGE Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:54:30 +0000 (+0530) Subject: tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property X-Git-Tag: v7.0-rc5~31^2~21 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4c00ba7274b613e3ab19e27eb009f0ec2e28379;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property 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 Tested-by: Rishon Jonathan R Co-developed-by: Vincent MORVAN Signed-off-by: Vincent MORVAN Signed-off-by: Paul SAGE Signed-off-by: Atharva Tiwari Reviewed-by: Michael Chan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260314215432.3589-1-atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c index 2328fce33644..21a5dd342724 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -17029,6 +17029,13 @@ 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) +{ + static const u8 default_mac_address[ETH_ALEN] = { 0x00, 0x10, 0x18, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }; + + return ether_addr_equal(default_mac_address, addr); +} + static int tg3_get_device_address(struct tg3 *tp, u8 *addr) { u32 hi, lo, mac_offset; @@ -17102,6 +17109,10 @@ 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)) + return device_get_mac_address(&tp->pdev->dev, addr); + return 0; }