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Commit: e0a2f28b4dee2a1e4c62dc8389f25defb284e387
Parent: a9903811bf8d130a26004f9cb27b66513a267908
Author: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 16 12:28:46 2007 -0500
Committer: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Mar 21 22:35:21 2007 +1100
[POWERPC] Document the linux,network-index property.
To allow more robust association of each network device node with an
index (such as is used by the firmware or an EEPROM to indicate MAC
addresses), a network device's node may specify the index explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index a1f83f1..88cdb59 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -1182,6 +1182,13 @@ platforms are moved over to use the
flattened-device-tree model.
- phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this ethernet
controller.
+ Recommended properties:
+
+ - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this
+ network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret
+ MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other
+ than indices is available to associate an address with a device.
+
Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] {
@@ -1550,6 +1557,12 @@ platforms are moved over to use the
flattened-device-tree model.
- mac-address : list of bytes representing the ethernet address.
- phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this controller.
+ Recommended properties:
+ - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this
+ network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret
+ MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other
+ than indices is available to associate an address with a device.
+
Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] {
device_type = "network";
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