On Tue, 28 Oct, at 05:18:43PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > From: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > > In the absence of a DTB configuration table, the EFI stub will happily > continue attempting to boot a kernel, despite the fact that this kernel > may not function without a description of the hardware. In this case, as > with a typo'd "dtb=" option (e.g. "dbt=") or many other possible > failures, the only output seen by the user will be the rather terse > output from the EFI stub: > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... > > To aid those attempting to debug such failures, this patch adds a notice > when no DTB is found, making the output more helpful: > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... > EFI stub: Generating empty DTB > > Additionally, a positive acknowledgement is added when a user-specified > DTB is in use: > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... > EFI stub: Using DTB from command line > > Similarly, a positive acknowledgement is added when a DTB from a > configuration table is in use: > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... > EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]> > Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Roy Franz <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 11 ++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Can't really argue with this. Acked-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
