[U-Boot] wanting to confirm i'm setting the MAC address the right way

[Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Wed, 25 May 2016, Bin Meng wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   i want to use the fdt_fixup_ethernet() routine to automate most
> > of the work of setting the MAC address in the FDT before passing
> > it to the kernel, so here's what i'm about to do, and i'd
> > appreciate someone saying, "yup, looks good" if it will indeed
> > work.
> >
> >   on either a MPC8280 or MPC8360 system, i will first set up the
> > DTS file with some variation of:
>
> To make it clear, the DTS file is the Linux kernel's, not U-Boot's.

  right, i knew that, should have been clearer.

> >         aliases {
> >                 ethernet0 = &ucc0;
> >         };
> >
> >         ... snip ...
> >
> >                 ucc0:ucc at 2000 {
> >                         device_type = "network";
> >                         compatible = "ucc_geth";
> >                         model = "UCC";
> >                         device-id = <1>;
> >                         reg = <0x2000 0x200>;
> >                         interrupts = <0x20>;
> >                         local-mac-address = [ 00 01 02 03 04 05 ];
>
> Make it all 00s

  point taken, as i see numerous other examples which also add a
comment "Filled in by U-Boot", which never hurts.

... snip ...

> > is that about it? it *looks* like all i have to do, and
> > fdt_fixup_etherhet() will do all the rest.
>
> yup, looks good :)

thanks.

rday

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