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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
To: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@baylibre.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM64: dts: meson s905x: accept MAC addr from u-boot  environment
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:32:37 -0800
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        Ramirez-Ortiz's message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:55:43 +0100")
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Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@baylibre.com> writes:

> With the adequate configuration settings, u-boot will loop through the
> list of aliases looking for "ethernetX".
>
> By adding an ethernet alias, u-boot can fixup the local-mac-address
> property in the kernel's device tree using a value held in its
> environment variable ethaddr.
>
> Tested-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@baylibre.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@baylibre.com>

Applied to v4.17/dt64,

Kevin