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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC	addressquestions
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:56:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4766E26A.4080300@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005f01c840eb$3b0bcb20$7100a8c0@ESIDT>

Joe Hamman wrote:

> I recently encountered the same problem.  By using the 'fdt b' command, I
> was able to see that the MAC addresses were not being filled in prior to
> calling the kernel.

Most device tree properties are not filled in until you execute the bootm 
command.  The MAC address is one such property.

> Adding aliases to the dtb file fixed my problem. (Search the mailing
> lists...)

It looks like U-Boot was updated before the device trees were updated.  When the 
code for aliases was added to U-Boot, the code for older device trees should not 
have been removed.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 20:56 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
2007-12-17 20:37         ` Joe Hamman
2007-12-17 20:56       ` Timur Tabi [this message]

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