linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM64: dts: meson s905x: accept MAC addr from u-boot environment

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:32:37 -0800
From:   Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
To:     Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@...libre.com>
Cc:     carlo@...one.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, jbrunet@...libre.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM64: dts: meson s905x: accept MAC addr from u-boot  environment

Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@...libre.com> writes:

> With the adequate configuration settings, u-boot will loop through the
> list of aliases looking for "ethernetX".
>
> By adding an ethernet alias, u-boot can fixup the local-mac-address
> property in the kernel's device tree using a value held in its
> environment variable ethaddr.
>
> Tested-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@...libre.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@...libre.com>

Applied to v4.17/dt64,

Kevin