From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:56:10 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC addressquestions In-Reply-To: <005f01c840eb$3b0bcb20$7100a8c0@ESIDT> References: <4766C201.1070904@freescale.com> <005f01c840eb$3b0bcb20$7100a8c0@ESIDT> Message-ID: <4766E26A.4080300@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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