[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] arm: pxa: always init ethaddr for LP-8x4x

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 09:53:48 PM, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 18:12 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 04:39:00 PM, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> > > I strongly believe the current way is easier.
> > 
> > I disagree :)
> > 
> > IF you set 'ethaddr' variable in U-Boot THEN
> > 
> >  U-Boot will patch this 'ethaddr' value into your DT. The
> >  /aliases/ethernet0 node will be augmented with a new property
> >  'local-mac-address', which will contain the MAC address from 'ethaddr'
> >  . The kernel will use this as the MAC address for that particular
> >  ethernet interface afterwards.
> > 
> > NOTE: It is very important to have the alias set, it has to point to your
> > ethernet device. A good example in Linux's arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28.dtsi,
> > which even has two ethernet interfaces. Notice each of them has an
> > alias. NOTE: If you have two interfaces, then 'eth1addr' is patches into
> > /aliases/ethernet1 etc.
> 
> Thanks for explaining. It works. This is COOL!

Glad it helps :)

> > The only problem here is the non-DT kernel. Do you need to support that?
> > Is there no other way to pass MAC address of an ethernet interface to
> > Linux but programming it into the ethernet interface itself ?
> 
> Hardware vendor uses U-Boot environment values to init MAC-addresses. I
> think it is even worse than what I was doing in the patch.
> 
> I don't think we need to support non-DT kernel. So we drop the
> patch.

OK, that's nice :)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut