Re: [PATCH] ARM: omap3: beagleboard-xm: dt: Add ethernet to the device tree

[Tony Lindgren <tony-4v6yS6AI5VpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

* Tony Lindgren <tony-4v6yS6AI5VpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> [161201 13:14]:
> * Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org> [161130 09:58]:
> > The Beagleboard-xM has a LAN9514 USB hub and ethernet controller,
> > connected to port 2 of the OMAP EHCI controller. The board however has
> > no EEPROM to store the ethernet MAC address, which is programmed by the
> > boot loader.
> > 
> > To allow Linux to use the same MAC address as the boot loader (or for
> > that matter any fixed MAC address), we need a node in the device tree
> > for the ethernet controller that the boot loader can update at runtime
> > with a local-mac-address property. Add it, along with an alias for the
> > ethernet controller to let the boot loader locate it easily.
> 
> Does not seem to work here.. Do I need to set something in u-boot?
> I'm using U-Boot 2016.09-00004-g26bb688.

Looks like my u-boot only has usbethaddr in the environment. After doing
setenv ethaddr it's now working :)

Regards,

Tony

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