[PATCH] ARM64: dts: meson: enable passing MAC addr on u-boot environment

Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz jramirez at baylibre.com
Wed Jan 17 00:44:08 PST 2018


On 01/17/2018 09:38 AM, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
>
> On 16/01/2018 18:13, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote:
>> From: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez at baylibre.org>
>>
>> With the adequate configuration settings, u-boot will loop through the
>> list of aliases looking for "ethernetX".
>>
>> By adding an ethernet alias, u-boot can fixup the local-mac-address
>> property in the kernel's device tree using a value held in its
>> environment variable ethaddr.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez at baylibre.org>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
>> index 68d2c90..8ed2a98 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>>   
>>   	aliases {
>>   		serial0 = &uart_AO;
>> +		ethernet = ðmac;
> Isn't it ethernet0 instead ?

uboot can take both (ethernet or ethernet%i)
I just double checked amlogics uboot and you are right it needs ethernet%i

so will fix


>
>>   	};
>>   
>>   	chosen {
>>
> It would be great to have this on all boards with ethernet enabled.

yes will post a new version shortly


>
> Neil
>




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