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author | Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> | 2013-02-12 03:05:38 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-02-12 16:15:10 -0500 |
commit | db98f081888cbdd995c7c4cfd407781da35e33ba (patch) | |
tree | 21226907ec97affeb3c85c5433f34a823b34d61b /README | |
parent | af32de0ecda35e933848090bbab490174504c731 (diff) |
net: fec_mpc52xx: Read MAC address from device-tree
Until now, the MPC5200 FEC ethernet driver relied upon the bootloader
(U-Boot) to write the MAC address into the ethernet controller
registers. The Linux driver should not rely on such a thing. So
lets read the MAC address from the DT as it should be done here.
The following priority is now used to read the MAC address:
1) First, try OF node MAC address, if not present or invalid, then:
2) Read from MAC address registers, if invalid, then:
3) Log a warning message, and choose a random MAC address.
This fixes a problem with a MPC5200 board that uses the SPL U-Boot
version without FEC initialization before Linux booting for
boot speedup.
Additionally a status line is now be printed upon successful
driver probing, also displaying this MAC address.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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