[PATCH 0/6] net: cpsw: Support for am335x chip MACIDs

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Feb 13 14:33:01 EST 2014


Hello,

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:13:01AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:40:58PM +0530, Mugunthan V N wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 December 2013 10:38 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:30:55PM +0530, Mugunthan V N wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 18 December 2013 10:17 PM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > >> Mac ID is to be filled by U-Boot and this kind of approach is already
> > >> rejected in linux-omap list.
> > >>
> > >> If proper ethaddr/eth*addr is populated in U-boot environment variable
> > >> then mac-address dt property in ethernet* device nodes will be populated
> > >> before boot kernel in U-boot. So I don't think this patch series is
> > >> required.
> > > but will u-boot read MACID from control module ?
> > >
> > Yes, U-Boot will read the MACID from control module and if a customer
> > wants to have his own MACID, U-boot ENV variable ethaddr/eth1addr must
> > be updated.
> 
> cool, then I agree this series shouldn't be applied ;-)
But even then I'd suggest to take at least patches 1 and 2.

Best regards
Uwe

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