Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: Revert disabling of smc91x for n900

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> [150106 11:47]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 08:59:03AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [150106 00:03]:
> > > On Mon 2015-01-05 15:02:29, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > Revert "ARM: dts: Disable smc91x on n900 until bootloader
> > > > dependency is removed". We've now fixed the issues that
> > > > caused problems with uninitialized hardware depending on
> > > > the bootloader version. Mostly things got fixed with
> > > > the following commits:
> > > > 
> > > > 9a894953a97b ("ARM: dts: Fix bootloader version dependencies by muxing n900 smc91x pins")
> > > > 7d2911c43815 ("net: smc91x: Fix gpios for device tree based booting")
> > > > 
> > > > Note that this only affects the early development boards
> > > > with Ethernet that we still have in a few automated boot
> > > > test systems.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> > > 
> > > Normally, the early development boards should have separate dts file
> > > (then include common parts), no?
> > 
> > In this case it won't matter. The GPMC hardware is there, the probe
> > just fails if no smsc91x is found.
> >  
> > > Could you at least add a note to the dts file what is it? Because I
> > > always thought it is a bug.
> > 
> > Sure, updated patch below. Can somebody please test boot it on
> > a production n900 too to make sure it no longer causes issues?
> 
> Seems to work fine with normal n900.
> 
> Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>

OK good to hear, thanks for testing.
 
> I also tested with a development board, eth0 seemed to appear,
> but couldn't configure the MAC address with busybox ifconfig.
> How should it be done, I guess the interface does not have any
> MAC by default?

You need to write the eeprom with ethtool from Linux, something
like this:

Run u-boot/tools/gen_eth_addr to generate a random local mac,
then swap the bytes for it for big endian. Enter them into a
file with hexedit in big endian order. Then just do:

# cat mac | ethtool -E eth0 offset 0x40 length 6

Then ethtool -e eth0 should show you the configuration.

Regards,

Tony