Re: [PATCH] arm: dt: Initialize boot_command_line from CONFIG_CMDLINE in case DT does not provide /chosen/bootargs

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Fri Dec 16 2016 - 11:14:00 EST


On Friday 16 December 2016 16:40:30 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [161216 04:54]:
> > On 12/16/2016 09:48 AM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > >>> saying that it cause problems which need to be properly fixed.
> > >>> And if fixing them is harder and will take more time, then
> > >>> correct option is to revert 008a2ebcd677 due to breaking
> > >>> support for more devices.
> > >>
> > >> If you think that others boards may have the same issue, then
> > >> you could add an empty chosen node to omap3.dtsi. As I said I
> > >> think that in practice this will only be needed for the
> > >> machines using NOLO but you are right that in theory you could
> > >> boot them using other bootloaders and having an empty node
> > >> doesn't cause any harm anyway.
> > >
> > > Should not be it part of any arm board? IIRC ATAG support is (or
> > > was) not omap3 specified.
> >
> > Yes, but you were talking about commit 008a2ebcd677 which only
> > removed skeleton.dtsi usage for OMAP3 boards. The same can be done
> > for other SoCs in its top level dtsi for the SoC family of course.
>
> Yeah probaby best to add the empty chosen node to the ones that had
> skeleton.dtsi removed.

Ok. But still I think that it should be added globally to all arm board
which can be booted by ATAG bootloader.

> And I think the code should print a warning if no chosen node is
> found?

Which code? Decompressor? Yes, it should but I do not know if at that
time is (serial) console usable...

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Pali RohÃr
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