Hi Sjoerd, On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Note that in my case I didn't have to add an empty mac-address >> property. >> U-Boot (2015.04-something --- don't have the sources) seems to add a >> "local-mac-address" property automatically. > > After submitting the patch i actually dived a bit deeper at how this > all hangs together. > > The linux kernel checks for mac-address, local-mac-address and address > in the fdt node, in that order of preference. u-boot (at least recent > ones like you have), will set the mac-address property *if* it's > already defined but will always create the local-mac-address property > regardless. That's also what I noticed. Originally I added the empty "mac-address" like you did, and /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/soc/ethernet@e6800000 ended up having both "mac-address" and "local-mac-address", both with the correct address. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html