[PATCH v4 06/12] ARM: dove: add gigabit ethernet and mvmdio device tree nodes

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Wed May 22 19:43:15 EST 2013


On 05/21/2013 07:48 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:41:44PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> This patch adds orion-eth and mvmdio device tree nodes for DT enabled
>> Dove boards. As there is only one ethernet controller on Dove, a default
>> phy node is also added with a note to set its reg property on a per-board
>> basis.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth<sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
>> ---
...
>> +			ethernet-port at 0 {
>> +				device_type = "network";
>> +				compatible = "marvell,orion-eth-port";
>> +				reg =<0>;
>> +				interrupts =<29>;
>> +				/* overwrite MAC address in bootloader */
>> +				local-mac-address = [00 00 00 00 00 00];
>
> Hi Sebastian
>
> Its probably a good idea to set the local administration bit in this
> MAC address. i.e. first byte is 02.

Andrew,

we just need an invalid address here to trigger the default behavior of
the driver and load the MAC address from its register. As PPC binding
documentation also has all zero, I just took it.

Sebastian


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