[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] fdt_support: Don't panic if stdout alias is missing

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Fri Oct 30 17:12:12 CET 2015



On 09/01/2015 08:48 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> Currently, using fdt_fixup_stdout() on a device tree that is missing
> the relevant alias results in this:
> 
> WARNING: could not set linux,stdout-path FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND.
> ERROR: /chosen node create failed
>  - must RESET the board to recover.
> 
> FDT creation failed! hanging...### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
> 
> There is no reason for this to be a fatal error rather than a warning,
> and removing this allows for a smooth transition on a platform where
> the device tree currently lacks the correct aliases but will have them
> in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> v2: Only continue booting if the problem was a missing alias, not
> the inability to write to the device tree.
> ---
>  common/fdt_support.c | 11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 


Applied to u-boot-fsl-qoriq. Awaiting upstream. Thanks.

York



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