Greg,

please pull the latest efi-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 
efi-urgent-for-linus

Make the EFI arm stub device tree loader default on to unbreak existing
EFI boot loaders which do not have DTB support.


Thanks,

        tglx

------------------>
Scott Branden (1):
      efi/libstub/arm: default EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER to y


 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
index d8e159feb573..89110dfc7127 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
@@ -90,14 +90,17 @@ config EFI_ARMSTUB
 config EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER
        bool "Enable the DTB loader"
        depends on EFI_ARMSTUB
+       default y
        help
          Select this config option to add support for the dtb= command
          line parameter, allowing a device tree blob to be loaded into
          memory from the EFI System Partition by the stub.
 
-         The device tree is typically provided by the platform or by
-         the bootloader, so this option is mostly for development
-         purposes only.
+         If the device tree is provided by the platform or by
+         the bootloader this option may not be needed.
+         But, for various development reasons and to maintain existing
+         functionality for bootloaders that do not have such support
+         this option is necessary.
 
 config EFI_BOOTLOADER_CONTROL
        tristate "EFI Bootloader Control"

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