Mac address in the DT

[Joakim Tjernlund]

<smitha.vanga at wipro.com> wrote on 2012/01/09 15:28:54:
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> Hi Joakim,
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> I have tried it but it doesn't work.
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> Just now found that with single ' quotes the entire sequence it works.
> >Setenv set_mac 'cp 0xffec0000 0x100000 1024;fdt addr 0xc00000 8192;fdt set /soc8272 at f0000000/ethernet at 24000 mac-address "[00 44 00 55 00 66]";erase 0xffec0000 0xffec4000;cp 0xc00000 0xffec0000 1024;bootm 0xfe060000 - 0xffec0000'
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> > run set_mac
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> For the above command I want to replace the mac address with the ethaddr> How do I do that. I tried $ethaddr but I get extra : characters.
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> >Setenv set_mac 'cp 0xffec0000 0x100000 1024;fdt addr 0xc00000 8192;fdt set /soc8272 at f0000000/ethernet at 24000 mac-address $ethaddr;erase 0xffec0000 0xffec4000;cp 0xc00000 0xffec0000 1024;bootm 0xfe060000 - 0xffec0000'

Of course you do, ethaddr has a different syntax and contains :

Anyway you should not have to set mac address manually like you do, u-boot will do it for you if you
have configured u-boot correctly and have a proper dtb tree. Check the u-boot code and the many dts files in linux
under arch/powerpc/boot/dts