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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2007-03-16 12:28:46 -0500
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-03-21 22:35:21 +1100
commite0a2f28b4dee2a1e4c62dc8389f25defb284e387 (patch)
treefec3d48cb2e717f4acb70bca92a5459caf260c87 /Documentation
parenta9903811bf8d130a26004f9cb27b66513a267908 (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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index a1f83f1c24c..88cdb592fdf 100644
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+++ 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";