[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add the ethernet to the device trees
Olivier Blin
dev at blino.org
Thu Apr 28 05:52:13 PDT 2016
Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> writes:
> On 02/04/2016 12:36 AM, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>> The hub and the ethernet in its port 1 are hardwired on the board.
>>
>> Compared to the adapters that can be plugged into the USB ports, this
>> one has no serial EEPROM to store its MAC. Nevertheless, the Raspberry Pi
>> has the MAC address for this adapter in its ROM, accessible from its
>> firmware.
>>
>> U-Boot can read out the address and set the local-mac-address property of the
>> node with "ethernet" alias. Let's add the node so that U-Boot can do its
>> business.
>>
>> Model B rev2 and Model B+ entries were verified by me, the hierarchy and
>> pid/vid pair for the Version 2 was provided by Olivier Blin. Original
>> Model B is a blind short, though very likely correct.
>
> The series,
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>
> A few nits though...
[...]
Is this still being queued in some tree?
Or does it need more fixes and a resubmit?
Without this, Raspberry Pi devices boot with a random MAC address.
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Olivier Blin - blino
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