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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 21:51:10 +0330
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From: Farooq Karimi Zadeh <hapu@riseup.net>
Subject: The chosen driver for ethernet being incorrect in Alpine ISO on
 Amlogic A311D
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Hello.

I've got a Libre Computer Alta. As I boot the aarch64 standard ISO using 
USB on the board and try to use

the ethernet device, the network device doesn't work.


If I boot something like NixOS or Debian on it, Ethernet just works 
fine. Also after I install Alpine on it and use `eudev` as the device 
manager, it also works fine. The difference I've found is the driver 
chosen is `stmmac` instead of `meson8b-dwmac`.


It seems that `mdev` is responsible for choosing drivers. Am I right? I 
needed some hints to write and send a patch.

Please don't give me fish, instead teach me how to fish. The first step 
is that how should I realize who is responsible for managing device 
drivers in Linux/Alpine.


Thanks in advance,

Farooq.