On Sunday 19 July 2015 10:47:43 Evan McClain wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> After rebasing my pi setup on a recent openSUSE image (since I was
> using raspberrypi branch kernels), it took me longer than I'm willing
> to admit to realize that the B+ needs to use the B+ dtb for things like
> USB to work. The kernel does boot with the rpi-b.dtb, but since USB
> isn't up the network devices aren't up and you can't plug in a keyboard
> to do anything about it.
> 
> The ethernet MAC, serial, and revision still aren't being picked up,
> but this time I'm going with the ifcfg-eth0 change instead of switching
> kernels and editing the boot args.
> 
> Have a lot of fun,
> Evan

I think this is due to using a to old u-boot, which is not able to detect
the board revision/model, and thus always uses fdtfile=bcm2835-rpi-b.dtb

See:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fe7845a9823c12aa673ad3590059528c184b987

Using a newer u-boot would also fix the problem of the changing mac address.

Kind regards,

Stefan

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