[PATCH] ARM: dts: rockchip: Setup ethernet0 alias for u-boot
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Oct 30 02:15:13 PDT 2015
Hi Sjoerd,
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Sjoerd Simons
<sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Add an ethernet0 alias for the wired network card and an all 0 default
> mac address so that u-boot can find the device-node and fill in the
> mac address.
Thanks a lot!
I had the same issue on another board, and adding an "ethernet0" alias
fixes it.
> @@ -130,6 +134,8 @@
> };
>
> &gmac {
> + /* To be filled in by U-Boot */
> + mac-address = [00 00 00 00 00 00];
> status = "ok";
> };
Note that in my case I didn't have to add an empty mac-address property.
U-Boot (2015.04-something --- don't have the sources) seems to add a
"local-mac-address" property automatically.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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