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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC	addressquestions
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:30:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4766DC57.6080708@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005f01c840eb$3b0bcb20$7100a8c0@ESIDT>

Joe Hamman wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> To get eth2 to link, I put this MAC in my device tree:
>>
>> local-mac-address = [ 00 E0 0C 00 02 FD ];
>>
>> Otherwise the kernel just sees a series of zero's . Is this change on
>> purpose and I missed what I need to do now?
>>
> 
> I recently encountered the same problem.  By using the 'fdt b' command, I
                                                               ^
"fdt p" I presume.                                            |

> was able to see that the MAC addresses were not being filled in prior to
> calling the kernel.
> 
> Adding aliases to the dtb file fixed my problem. (Search the mailing
> lists...)
> 
> Best regards,
> Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 17:56 [U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC address questions robert lazarski
2007-12-17 18:37 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-17 18:47   ` robert lazarski
2007-12-17 20:27     ` [U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC addressquestions Joe Hamman
2007-12-17 20:30       ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2007-12-17 20:37         ` Joe Hamman
2007-12-17 20:56       ` Timur Tabi

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