From: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:08:08 +0100
> Until now, the MPC5200 FEC ethernet driver relied upon the bootloader > (U-Boot) to write the MAC address into the ethernet controller > registers. The Linux driver should not rely on such a thing. So > lets read the MAC address from the DT as it should be done here. > > The following priority is now used to read the MAC address: > > 1) First, try OF node MAC address, if not present or invalid, then: > > 2) Read from MAC address registers, if invalid, then: > > 3) Log a warning message, and choose a random MAC address. > > This fixes a problem with a MPC5200 board that uses the SPL U-Boot > version without FEC initialization before Linux booting for > boot speedup. > > Additionally a status line is now be printed upon successful > driver probing, also displaying this MAC address. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> Applied. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev