Russell McGuire wrote: > To save most the banter, and rephrasing: > > What is the 'EXPECTED' current behavior of the 83xx/6xx architecture for the > most current 1.3.3+ GIT release of passing MACs into Linux 2.6.24. Lastly, I > am using the UEC 83xx driver. > > I have defined QE_OF. > I have defined CONFIG_UEC_ETH. > I have defined CONFIG_ETHADDR. > > My 8360.blob/dts does have MAC address definitions, but are set to ZERO's. > <See below> In previous releases this was over written by U-boot, thus using > the CONFIG_ETHADDR address to be used within Linux 2.6.24. > > Most recently <since 1.3.1>, I now have to add valid MACs to the > 8360.blob/dts file to get a MAC to be set within Linux. Does U-boot no > longer over write if a blob already has any MAC set? I don't care what used > to work really, I just would like to know what the current method is. > > Here is my current dts entry of note, previously <1.3.1> I didn't have to > set 'mac-address' / could leave it at all-zeros. Now, I do have to set > mac-address. Again, not worried about any previous method working, just > looking for current method that is correct.
/aliases/ethernet0 = ??? Use "fdt print /", "fdt print /aliases", "fdt chosen", and "fdt bd"(?) at the u-boot command line to see what your blob looks like and how creating the /chosen node and board fixups change it. References: common/fdt_support.c (ethernet fixup for mac address, dereferences the /aliases node) <http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=common/fdt_support.c;h=75077442d85dbc2fc38ae02e80be1c5485b391c9;hb=HEAD#l379> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] { //UCC1 > device_type = "network"; > compatible = "ucc_geth"; > model = "UCC"; > device-id = <1>; // UCC1 > reg = <2000 200>; > interrupts = <20>; > interrupt-parent = < &qeic >; > /* > * mac-address is deprecated and will be removed > * in 2.6.25. Only recent versions of > * U-Boot support local-mac-address, however. > */ > mac-address = [ 00 04 9f ef 01 01 ]; > local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ]; > rx-clock = <0>; > tx-clock = <19>; > phy-handle = <212000>; > pio-handle = < &pio1 >; > phy-connection-type = "rgmii-id"; > }; > > -Russ Best regards, gvb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
