[PATCH 3/4] mpc8349emitx: Add chosen node for default stdout path
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Jul 21 02:14:46 EST 2007
Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>> Kim Phillips wrote:
>>> The LIBFDT implementation replaces any existing /chosen with its fixed
>>> up version.
>
>
> Sort of. If /chosen doesn't exist, it creates it.
>
> If /chosen exists and "force" parameter is false, it doesn't touch it.
> If "force" is true, it creates or fixes up properties. The "bootm"
> command passes in force == false. The "fdt" command passes in force ==
> true.
>
> The "force" parameter was added to sort of emulate the previous bootm
> command behavior (but behave better in the case where /chosen already
> existed).
The problem is that "force" is node-granular, rather than
property-granular -- If I add a /chosen/linux,stdout-path in the
original dts (or via an fdt command), then bootm will decline to add
bootargs and initrd information to the /chosen node.
-Scott
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