Paul SAGE e4c00ba727 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 <mithicalaviator85@gmail.com>

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>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260314215432.3589-1-atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

2026-03-16 20:22:29 -07:00

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