[PATCH 3/4] ARM: highbank: select OFTREE

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Apr 20 04:20:20 PDT 2015


On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:51:30AM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2015, 07:59 +0100 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:58:12AM +0800, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mar 26, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The board code uses quite a few OF functions and it doesn't seem
> > > > reasonable to run this board without DT support.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig
> > > > index 950810b57517..8af480861c3f 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ choice
> > > > 
> > > > config MACH_HIGHBANK
> > > > 	bool "Calxeda Highbank"
> > > > +	select OFTREE
> > > > 	select HAVE_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT_NEW
> > > 
> > > you can run wihtout it as the oftree code is only used if you decide to use the dtb provided by the
> > > firmware
> > 
> > With CONFIG_OFTREE disabled the board fails to link:
> > 
> > arch/arm/boards/built-in.o: In function `highbank_mem_init':
> > :(.text.highbank_mem_init+0x10): undefined reference to `of_unflatten_dtb'
> > arch/arm/boards/built-in.o: In function `highbank_devices_init':
> > :(.text.highbank_devices_init+0x54): undefined reference to `of_get_fixed_tree'
> > 
> > Even if we had a static inline no-op wrapper for of_get_fixed_tree, the
> > board doesn't check the return value of of_get_fixed_tree and does this:
> > 
> > 	fdt = of_get_fixed_tree(NULL);
> > 	add_mem_device("dtb", (unsigned long)fdt, be32_to_cpu(fdt->totalsize),
> > 	       IORESOURCE_MEM_WRITEABLE);
> > 
> > Here the code would crash with a NULL pointer derefence. So unless we
> > get a couple of other patches I believe Lucas' patch is correct.
> 
> As Jean-Christophe has not indicated that he is going to fix this
> another way, could you please take this patch?

Did that

Sascha

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