[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx: Pass an empty 'chosen' node
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Dec 19 07:39:54 PST 2016
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 01:28:18PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Commit 7f107887d199 ("ARM: dts: imx: Remove skeleton.dtsi") causes boot
> issues when the bootloader does not create a 'chosen' node if such node
> is not present in the dtb.
>
> The reason for the boot failure is well explained by Javier Martinez
> Canillas: "the decompressor relies on a pre-existing chosen node to be
> available to insert the command line and merge other ATAGS info."
>
> , so pass an empty 'chosen' node to fix the boot problem.
>
> This issue has been seen in the kernelci reports with Barebox as
> bootloader.
>
> Fixes: 7f107887d199 ("ARM: dts: imx: Remove skeleton.dtsi")
> Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <bot at kernelci.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
There is also a patch on the barebox list that makes barebox fix a dt
accordingly. It seems it's not in the repository though.
Best regards
Uwe
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