[PATCH v1 0/1] Fix booting kernels with ATAGS and extlinux

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Thu Jan 25 07:29:54 CET 2024


On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:27:30PM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> Currently, if boot with extlinux.conf and do not set the fdt
> U-Boot will provide its own device tree. This behavior is
> beneficial if the U-Boot device tree is in sync with Linux,
> but it totally halts the booting of pre-dtb kernels (3.4 for
> example) since it uses ATAGs. To fix this, pass `-` in the
> fdt extlinux field as a signal that no tree should be used.

Passing - doesn't seem like the most intuitive thing...  Is there a
different argument we could use?

regards,
dan carpenter



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