[PATCH] ARM: dts: aspeed: Add default memory node

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Mar 14 20:03:17 AEDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> When we removed the inclusion of skeleton.dtsi from the device trees, we
> broke booting for systems with bootloaders that aren't device tre aware.
> This can be seen, for example, when appending the device tree blob to
> the kernel image.
>
> The reason booting broke was that the kernel lacked the device_type
> label in the memory node. Add in a default memory node wth the
> device_type. It can contain the memory address as the location is fixed
> for each SoC generation, but the size needs to be added by the
> bootloader or the board specific dts.
>
> Fixes: 73102d6fdc32 ("ARM: dts: aspeed: Remove skeleton.dtsi")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> ---
> Arnd, can you please merge this as a fix for 4.16?

Sure, applied to fixes branch now.

     Arnd


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