[PATCH v2] ARM: sunxi: dt: add EMAC aliases

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Sun Nov 17 03:38:29 EST 2013


Hi,

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 08:48:48PM -0300, Emilio López wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> El 16/11/13 20:37, Michal Suchanek escribió:
> >Unfortunately,
> >
> >a20 has two Ethernets so you can't alias both to ethernet0.
> >
> >This has to be done on a per-board basis.
> >
> 
> That was my first thought, and partly why I did it per-board on v1
> (the other part being that some boards do not have a phy, so having
> an ethernet0 alias felt "wrong"). But after some quick testing, it
> appears that aliases are overridable, so we could just add ethernet0
> = &gmac; on qualifying boards when the gmac support is ready.

Or we will just add it as ethernet1. U-boot is able to put the
mac-address in the DT for every ethernet* nodes for as much ethernet
nodes as you need.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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