[U-Boot] MAC address being reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?

[Amit Margalit]

Hello all,

I am wondering what I am doing wrong - the MAC address is correct in
U-Boot but when Linux boots it resets to 00:00:00:00:00:00. My board is
a powerpc32 - MPC8543_E based board, derived mostly from Freescale's
CDS.

I have the following in the config header file:
#define CONFIG_ETHADDR   00:E0:0C:00:00:FD

I set something else in the flat device tree:
                ethernet at 24000 {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        device_type = "network";
                        model = "eTSEC";
                        compatible = "gianfar";
                        reg = <24000 1000>;
                        local-mac-address = [ 51 5E BC EE 55 01 ];
                        interrupts = <1d 2 1e 2 22 2>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&mpic>;
                        phy-handle = <&phy0>;
                        phy-connection-type = "rgmii";
                };

So I tried to read
/proc/device-tree/soc8548 at e0000000/ethernet at 24000/local-mac-address -
and got the [ 51 5E BC EE 55 01 ].

But ifconfig shows:
-sh-2.05b# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          inet addr:10.0.0.247  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:30317 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:13474224 (12.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2330405 (2.2 MiB)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Amit Margalit | SW Team Leader
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