[U-Boot-Users] FDT: missing stdout-path

[Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>]

Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:56:08AM -0400, Bill Cook wrote:
>> Hello experts,
>>
>> With U-Boot-1.3.2 and a Freescale MPC8313ERDB,
>> I'm getting this message from bootm
>>
>> ...
>>    Booting using the fdt at 0xfc700000
>>    Loading Ramdisk to 07ca1000, end 07f419bf ... OK
>>    Loading Device Tree to 007fc000, end 007fefff ... OK
>>    WARNING: could not set linux,stdout-path FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND.
>>    ERROR: /chosen node create failed - must RESET the board to recover.
>>    Resetting the board.
>>
>>    U-Boot 1.3.2 (Apr  2 2008 - 10:02:55) MPC83XX
>>
>>    Reset Status: Software Hard, External/Internal Soft, External/Internal
>> Hard
>>
>>    CPU:   e300c3, MPC8313E, Rev: 10 at 333.333 MHz, CSB:  166 MHz
>> ...
>>
>> What do I need to add to DTS file or u-boot environment to make this go?
> 
> You probably need serial0, serial1, etc. aliases.  See the device trees
> in head-of-tree Linux.
> 
> -Scott

...and that error message could stand improvement to give the poor user 
a better clue that he is missing the /aliases node or /aliases/serial0 
property.

The current error message reminds me of the "Fog in Seattle" joke
   <http://home.earthlink.net/~devinc/fogin.htm>

gvb