With the adequate configuration settings, u-boot will loop through the
list of aliases looking for "ethernetX".

By adding an ethernet alias, u-boot can fixup the local-mac-address
property in the kernel's device tree using a value held in its
environment variable ethaddr.

Tested-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts 
b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
index 68d2c90..278d769 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
        aliases {
                serial0 = &uart_AO;
+               ethernet0 = &ethmac;
        };
 
        chosen {
-- 
2.7.4

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