linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] ARM: dts: omap3: Add an empty chosen node to top level DTSI

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2017 19:01:22 +0100
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] ARM: dts: omap3: Add an empty chosen node to top level DTSI

On Monday 19 December 2016 15:44:34 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Commit 008a2ebcd677 ("ARM: dts: omap3: Remove skeleton.dtsi usage")
> removed the skeleton.dtsi usage since we want to get rid of it.
> 
> But this can cause issues when booting a kernel with a boot-loader
> that doesn't create a chosen node if this isn't present in the DTB
> since the decompressor relies on a pre-existing chosen node to be
> available to insert the command line and merge other ATAGS info.
> 
> Fixes: 008a2ebcd677 ("ARM: dts: omap3: Remove skeleton.dtsi usage")
> Reported-by: Pali Rohar <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>

Including empty chosen node fixes (or rather workaround) this problem. 
You can add my Tested-By.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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