efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:33:33 +0000 (16:33 +0100)
committerArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:03:34 +0000 (09:03 +0100)
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>
Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c

index 75ee05964cbc460fc0b6686a50a1f664fac8c0e7..eb48a1a1a576aa38d1be8a482b6037d302d1a060 100644 (file)
@@ -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,