[RFC, PATCH] fdt: Make sure there is no stale initrd left

[Sam Protsenko]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM Sam Protsenko
<semen.protsenko at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM Richard Weinberger
> <richard at sigma-star.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2025 19:05 Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > > > I think we need to distinguish two cases:
> > > > 1. The caller explicitly does not want to have an initramfs. e.g. you run  "bootm addr1 - addr3".
> > >
> > > Yes, so fdt_delprop() lines should be probably moved to appropriate
> > > users, e.g. image_setup_linux(). Can you take care of this? I'm in the
> > > middle of something else right now and can't spend too much time on
> > > this. Or we can just revert this patch for now, to fix EFI apps
> > > breakage.
> >
> > I'll try to allocate time for that.
> > Are we in a hurry? I'm fine with reverting but since the next release is months
> > away and the change is only in next I'd first try to find a solution.
> >
>
> No, you're right, we have time. I specifically reported the issue
> instead of sending a revert, so that we can try and look for a
> solution. So I'm ok waiting, if you have time to sort this out. Please
> add me to Cc: when you send a patch, I can test it on my HW for you.
>

Hey Richard,

Did you have a chance to look into reworking this patch? I'm still
carrying a revert locally (to make GBL EFI app work), and would like
to get rid of it. Please advice if you have a plan on handling this in
the near future.

Thanks!

> P.S. The change is in master already btw, not only in -next, it's MW right now.
>
> > Thanks,
> > //richard
> >
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