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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: owl: Add Actions Semi Owl S500 SoC machine
To:     Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@gmail.com>
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Hi Cristian,

On 11.03.21 20:19, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> Add machine entry for the S500 variant of the Actions Semi Owl SoCs
> family.
> 
> For the moment the only purpose is to provide the system serial
> information which will be used by the Owl Ethernet MAC driver to
> generate a stable MAC address.

Can't that be done in either a sys_soc driver or U-Boot?

Regards,
Andreas

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