[U-Boot-Users] Device tree and u-boot passing MAC addressquestions
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Mon Dec 17 21:56:10 CET 2007
Joe Hamman wrote:
> I recently encountered the same problem. By using the 'fdt b' command, I
> was able to see that the MAC addresses were not being filled in prior to
> calling the kernel.
Most device tree properties are not filled in until you execute the bootm
command. The MAC address is one such property.
> Adding aliases to the dtb file fixed my problem. (Search the mailing
> lists...)
It looks like U-Boot was updated before the device trees were updated. When the
code for aliases was added to U-Boot, the code for older device trees should not
have been removed.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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