[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] [v2] powerpc/85xx: verify the device tree before booting Linux

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Fri Jul 29 15:05:25 CEST 2011


On May 3, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Introduce ft_verify_fdt(), a function that is called after the device tree
> has been fixed up, that displays warning messages if there is a mismatch
> between the physical addresses of some devices that U-Boot has configured with
> what the device tree says the addresses are.
> 
> This is a particular problem when booting a 36-bit device tree from a 32-bit
> U-Boot (or vice versa), because the physical address of CCSR is wrong in the
> device tree.  When the operating system boots, no messages are displayed, so
> the user generally has no idea what's wrong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> ---

applied to 85xx

- k


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