On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:32:51PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > On 05/22/2013 06:59 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >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... > > Not neccessary anyway, after talking Jason C in a Kirkwood-only > workaround I prepared a patch that reads mac address registers early > and stores it in the local-mac-address property.
Sweet! > Just tested on Dockstar with gated clocks and modular DT mv643xx_eth. > > Will append to the DT mv643xx_eth patch set if a v5 will be required > or as single patch prior Jason C taking in the ARM part of it > otherwise. Please post, in-reply-to v4 is fine. thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
