[PATCH v3] ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add the ethernet to the device trees

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Apr 29 10:24:40 PDT 2016


On 04/29/2016 12:52 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 Peter Chen. Original
> Model B is a blind short, though very likely correct.

You probably want to Cc the ARM Linux mailing list on DT patches related 
to ARM platforms; more people who might care about this are subscribed 
there.

> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi

> +/ {
> +	aliases {
> +		ethernet = ðernet;
> +	};
> +};

Doesn't that ...

> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi

... need to be in this file too?



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