[PATCH v5] ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add the ethernet to the device trees

Olivier Blin dev at blino.org
Tue May 3 14:35:45 PDT 2016


Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> writes:

> 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 shot, though very likely correct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>

Tested-by: Olivier Blin <dev at blino.org>

Though, I still need the following patch for this DT patch to be useful:
net/smscx5xx: use the device tree for mac address

Thanks for the update Lubomir

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino



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