[GIT PULL] ARM: mvebu: DT changes for v3.17

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 06:44:36 PDT 2014


On 06/27/2014 03:39 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> Also, production variants have their MAC address stored at 0xd0000 on
>> SPI flash. And while ES has PL2303 USB-to-UART, production use a
>> different brand, IIRC FTDI.
>
> Could you do a follow on patch adding a comment to this effect?  The
> Debian guys will need this for flash-kernel and friends.

I don't know if that information will be of any use at all.

You cannot determine USB-to-UART type from CuBox but your host PC only.

And I am not sure, if we want to rely on some six numbers stored on
SPI flash, i.e. there is no magic nor header to be really sure, it
is a MAC address.

Sebastian





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