Commit 0bcaa904 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Ard Biesheuvel

efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence

In the absence of a DTB configuration table, the EFI stub will happily
continue attempting to boot a kernel, despite the fact that this kernel
may not function without a description of the hardware. In this case, as
with a typo'd "dtb=" option (e.g. "dbt=") or many other possible
failures, the only output seen by the user will be the rather terse
output from the EFI stub:

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...

To aid those attempting to debug such failures, this patch adds a notice
when no DTB is found, making the output more helpful:

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: Generating empty DTB

Additionally, a positive acknowledgement is added when a user-specified
DTB is in use:

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: Using DTB from command line

Similarly, a positive acknowledgement is added when a DTB from a
configuration table is in use:

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLeif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRoy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
parent b07bfaa3
......@@ -247,9 +247,18 @@ unsigned long __init efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
goto fail_free_cmdline;
}
}
if (!fdt_addr)
if (fdt_addr) {
pr_efi(sys_table, "Using DTB from command line\n");
} else {
/* Look for a device tree configuration table entry. */
fdt_addr = (uintptr_t)get_fdt(sys_table);
if (fdt_addr)
pr_efi(sys_table, "Using DTB from configuration table\n");
}
if (!fdt_addr)
pr_efi(sys_table, "Generating empty DTB\n");
status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr,
"initrd=", dram_base + SZ_512M,
......
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