[PATCH v3] ARM: dts: imx: Pass 'chosen' and 'memory' nodes

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Tue Jan 24 05:27:35 PST 2017


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:54:10PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Also pass the 'memory' node in order to fix boot issues on the SolidRun
> iMX6 platforms.
> 
> Fixes: 7f107887d199 ("ARM: dts: imx: Remove skeleton.dtsi")
> Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <bot at kernelci.org>
> Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>

Applied, thanks.



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