Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2013 10:59:08 -0600 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 06/12] ARM: dove: add gigabit ethernet and mvmdio device tree nodes |
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:10:10AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> iirc, our solution to this was to parse the ATAGs for the mac addr and > update the appended dtb. This way, module load and unload would work > without loosing the mac address. I believe Jason Gunthorpe has a patch > to atags_to_fdt() for this... This should allow us to get rid of the > clocks hack.
Sorry, no, we don't use ATAGs here, our platforms start the kernel with a correct DTB that has the correct mac address to use. My patch was to have the driver accept it, and I think Sebastian has already got that functionality...
Jason
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