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[POWERPC] Document the linux,network-index property.

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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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Scott Wood 2007-03-16 12:28:46 -05:00 committed by Paul Mackerras
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@ -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";