Hi Jonas, > I cannot find any rockchip board in U-Boot or Linux that currently use > a ethernet2 alias, have you sent a Linux patch that I have missed? > > The addition of eth1addr was done because there are and was in-tree > boards that have use for both ethaddr and eth1addr. > > Suggest you send a Linux patch that adds or updates a rockchip dts to > include an ethernet2 alias before this is applied.
sorry I missed your message that time. I thought about the chicken&egg issue with the aliases being defined in Linux and used in U-Boot, and chose to offer the patch for U-Boot first, since the aliases can be defined in Linux via device tree overlays, without touching sources and recompiling the kernel.
I will offer a patch to Linux then, hope the reaction is not similar there like "why should we define aliases which are not used by anything?" :)
Maybe this is the common order, and certainly has the benefit that you can sync the aliases back into U-Boot device trees, so those benefit from the same static MAC addresses, in case they are really applied to U-Boot device tree aliases as well.
I'll keep you updated regarding Linux patch. Best regards, Micha
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