[PATCH 2/2] fwu: Gracefully handle missing FWU metadata device
Michal Simek
michal.simek at amd.com
Thu Jul 2 09:48:53 CEST 2026
On 7/2/26 09:41, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 at 16:18, Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> On systems with FWU enabled but without the required DT changes the FWU
>> metadata device is not found and fwu_boottime_checks() returns an error.
>> Being an initcall, that non-zero return aborts the boot flow
>>
>> Return 0 instead so the boot continues. The preceding log_err() still
>> tells the user that the FWU device could not be found.
>
> Won't that affect the board later on? E.g When you do capsule updates,
> updating the metadata will fail
Do you mean on systems without mdata?
Thanks,
Michal
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