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From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 10/10] efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:18:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414513123-20400-11-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414513123-20400-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

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: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
index 75ee05964cbc..eb48a1a1a576 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
@@ -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,
-- 
1.8.3.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-28 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28 16:18 [PATCH v2 00/10] arm64 EFI patches for 3.19 Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] arm64/efi: efistub: jump to 'stext' directly, not through the header Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] arm64/efi: set PE/COFF section alignment to 4 KB Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] arm64/efi: set PE/COFF file alignment to 512 bytes Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] arm64/efi: invert UEFI memory region reservation logic Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:47   ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-28 17:08     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 17:28       ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-30  0:28   ` Roy Franz
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] arm64/efi: drop redundant set_bit(EFI_CONFIG_TABLES) Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] efi: dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 UEFI configuration table Ard Biesheuvel
2014-11-04 17:20   ` Matt Fleming
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-29 15:11   ` [PATCH v2] " Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-29 16:19     ` Leif Lindholm
2014-11-04 17:39   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] " Matt Fleming
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-29 16:23   ` Leif Lindholm
2014-10-28 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] arm64: dmi: set DMI string as dump stack arch description Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-29 14:58   ` Leif Lindholm
2014-10-28 16:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2014-11-04 17:42   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence Matt Fleming
2014-11-05  7:53 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] arm64 EFI patches for 3.19 Ard Biesheuvel
2014-11-05  9:52   ` Will Deacon

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