[GIT PULL] SoCFPGA DTS updates for v4.7, part3

[Dinh Nguyen]

On 05/17/2016 05:43 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 May 2016 09:43:11 Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>> If not too late, please pull in this patch for v4.7.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dinh
>>
>> The following changes since commit 02da2d72174c61988eb4456b53f405e3ebdebce4:
>>
>>   Linux 4.6-rc5 (2016-04-24 16:17:05 -0700)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dinguyen/linux.git socfpga_for_next_v4.7_dts_part_3
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to fca689561e8170ad954b982b9ce2160a06d9435e:
>>
>>   ARM: dts: socfpga: add ethernet alias on Arria10 (2016-05-03 09:25:21 -0500)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> SoCFPGA DTS update for v4.7, part 3
>> - Add ethernet alias on Arria10
>>
> 
> I was going to put this into the next/late branch that already has some other
> changes, but in the end I decided to drop it because it is based on
> a later -rc release than the other branches, and doesn't seem obvious
> or important enough.
> 

That's fine. I can queue it for v4.8.

> Just a clarification about the contents of the patch, you write:
> 
>     Without having an ethernet alias, ethernet will have a random MAC address,
>     versus take an address that was provided from the bootloader.
> 
> Why is the alias needed to get the right MAC address? How does the
> bootloader pass it?
> 

For example, if U-Boot's ethaddr environment is set, the MAC address
gets populated in the mac-address property of the node with "ethernet"
alias.

Dinh