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

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 19:17:10 PST 2017


Adding devicetree list.

On 01/24/17 05:27, Shawn Guo wrote:
> 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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