[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] net: eth-uclass: Support device tree MAC addresses

[Joe Hershberger]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:26 AM Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 05:59:57PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> >
> > Add the standard Ethernet device tree bindings (imported from v5.0 of
> > the Linux kernel) and implement support for reading the MAC address for
> > Ethernet devices in the Ethernet uclass. If the "mac-address" property
> > exists, the MAC address will be parsed from that. If that property does
> > not exist, the "local-mac-address" property will be tried as fallback.
> >
> > MAC addresses from device tree take precedence over the ones stored in
> > a network interface card's ROM.
> >
> > Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v4:
> > - do not clear MAC address on failure to avoid overwriting existing MAC
> > - fix build on xtensa (missing CONFIG_OF_CONTROL)
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - add additional check to make sure the MAC address read from device
> >   tree is a valid MAC address
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - use dev_read_u8_array_ptr()
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt      | 66 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  net/eth-uclass.c                              | 30 ++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> did you have a chance to look at this updated version? I've manually
> verified that the qemu-x86_64 test failure is no longer there and the
> build failure for xtensa is also gone.
>
> A fairly largish series for Tom's Tegra tree is currently blocked on
> this because without these two patches it will cause a test failure.

I'll be build testing this soon.

Cheers,
-Joe