On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When we removed the inclusion of skeleton.dtsi from the device trees, we
> broke booting for systems with bootloaders that aren't device tre aware.
> This can be seen, for example, when appending the device tree blob to
> the kernel image.
>
> The reason booting broke was that the kernel lacked the device_type
> label in the memory node. Add in a default memory node wth the
> device_type. It can contain the memory address as the location is fixed
> for each SoC generation, but the size needs to be added by the
> bootloader or the board specific dts.
>
> Fixes: 73102d6fdc32 ("ARM: dts: aspeed: Remove skeleton.dtsi")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Arnd, can you please merge this as a fix for 4.16?
Sure, applied to fixes branch now.
Arnd