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

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Tue May 3 16:41:14 CEST 2011


On May 3, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

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>> +
>> +        ft_verify_fdt(*of_flat_tree);
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> Do we not want to error out here if verify fails?

Maybe.  I didn't want a false negative to prevent booting.  If the DT is wrong, the kernel won't display any messages, so the warning will be the last thing the user sees anyway.

If the consensus is that failure should abort, then I can add that.  I don't have a strong preference either way.
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