[Skiboot] [PATCH] console(lpc/fsp-console): Use just stdout-path.

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 2 13:00:10 AEDT 2018


Oliver <oohall at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:10 AM, ppaidipe <ppaidipe at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-03-01 12:36, Stewart Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi <ppaidipe at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> dtc tool complaining about below warning as usage of linux,stdout-path
>>>> property under /chosen node is deprecated.
>
> Hmm, dtc is largely intended for the embedded community who have the
> ability to fix up the DTB to better match what a specific kernel
> versions expects while we don't have that luxury. We need to ensure
> old kernels will continue to boot with a newer skiboot so we're forced
> to keep the "deprecated" parts of the DT around. IMO the warning is
> kind of bogus for our situation so we might want to look at adding a
> switch to dtc so that it complains less about this sort of issue.

Yeah. I haven't looked if it complains if you have both or not (I should
check), but at least for P9 we can ditch a bunch of the old stuff.

In future, we'll probably have to keep a closer eye on things.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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