[PATCH] ARM: sunxi: dt: add EMAC aliases
Maxime Ripard
maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Sat Nov 16 01:32:35 EST 2013
Hi Emilio,
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:16:40PM -0300, Emilio López wrote:
> U-Boot uses the ethernet0 alias to locate the right node to fill in
> the MAC address of the first ethernet interface. This patch adds the
> alias on all the sunxi boards with EMAC and an ethernet port. In this
> way, people using ethernet in U-Boot (eg, for tftp) can keep a consistent
> address on both U-Boot and Linux with no additional effort.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio at elopez.com.ar>
> ---
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have tested this on a cubieboard2 and found it to work as intended,
> and I don't see why it wouldn't work on the other boards, given that
> the U-Boot codebase is shared. It may be worth submitting this for
> 3.13-rc0, but I'm not the one that has to make that call :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Emilio
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts | 1 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-cubieboard.dts | 1 +
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-hackberry.dts | 4 ++++
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a10s-olinuxino-micro.dts | 4 ++++
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-cubieboard2.dts | 4 ++++
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-olinuxino-micro.dts | 4 ++++
> 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
I think it would make more sense to add it to the dtsi.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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