Re: Boot failures in -next due to 'ARM: dts: imx: Remove skeleton.dtsi'

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 12:09:55 EST


On 11/17/2016 07:05 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:44:55AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On 11/17/2016 02:55 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:40:24PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:27:09PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
Hi Guenter,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyway, I guess the problem is that the "official" dtb files no longer provide
the skeleton /chosen and /memory nodes (and maybe others), and qemu seems to
expect that they are provided. Is that correct ?

imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi provides chosen and memory nodes.

Yes, but not the 'device_type' property, which the kernel seems to expect.

Memory nodes require this property per ePAPR and the devicetree.org
spec, so the bug is that we didn't add those when removing the
skeleton.dtsi include.

The downside from qemu perspective is that the real hardware seems
to add the property unconditionally, or the boot failure would have
been seen there as well.

I submitted https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/695951/; we'll see how it goes.

Sure, the firmare/bootlaoder you're using may add this automatically.

My worry is that adding this to a generic file in QEMU only serves to
mask this class of bug for other boards (i.e. they'll work fine in QEMU,
but not on real HW using whatever bootlaoder happens ot be there).

Good point.

What would be the correct behavior for qemu ? Adding a chosen node if it does
not exist is one detail we already established. Also, I think a check if
/memory/device_type exists (and to bail out if it doesn't) would make sense.

What about the memory node ? Does it have to exist, or should it be added
(including the device_type property) if not ?

Thanks,
Guenter