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| author | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2007-03-16 12:28:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-03-21 22:35:21 +1100 |
| commit | e0a2f28b4dee2a1e4c62dc8389f25defb284e387 (patch) | |
| tree | fec3d48cb2e717f4acb70bca92a5459caf260c87 /Documentation/powerpc | |
| parent | a9903811bf8d130a26004f9cb27b66513a267908 (diff) | |
[POWERPC] Document the linux,network-index property.
To allow more robust association of each network device node with an
index (such as is used by the firmware or an EEPROM to indicate MAC
addresses), a network device's node may specify the index explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index a1f83f1c24c9..88cdb592fdf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -1182,6 +1182,13 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this ethernet controller. + Recommended properties: + + - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this + network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret + MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other + than indices is available to associate an address with a device. + Example: ethernet@24000 { @@ -1550,6 +1557,12 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. - mac-address : list of bytes representing the ethernet address. - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this controller. + Recommended properties: + - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this + network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret + MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other + than indices is available to associate an address with a device. + Example: ucc@2000 { device_type = "network"; |