[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Nov 26 15:14:36 PST 2014


* Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> [141126 15:03]:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2014 21:08:06 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> With your patch I'm getting:
> 
> Hardware        : Nokia RX-51 board
> 
> So patch is good.

Is that a Tested-by: then? :)
 
> > > Revision comes from bootloader (via ATAG) and it is HW
> > > revision of N900 device. It cannot be hardcoded into kernel
> > > or DTS as it it depends on HW.
> > 
> > Well for the "Revision" line problem, we could pass the
> > revision in cmdline or .dts if not passed in the legacy
> > ATAGs. It sounds like were just not copying it to system_rev
> > for DT based booting? Maybe it's just some missing
> > CONFIG_ATAG option that needs to be enabled?
> 
> Yes it looks like DT code does not read Revision ATAG... I tried 
> to enable everything but always same problem...

Maybe check if it shows up properly in /proc/atags or whatever
the interface for it was?

The build_tag_list() should parse ATAG_REVISION and then
parse_tag_revision() should copy it to system_rev. Maybe try
adding some printks to see if those functions get called?

Regards,

Tony



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