Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [GIT pull] efi fix for 4.19 | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:34:03 +0200 |
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Greg,
please pull the latest efi-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git efi-urgent-for-linus
Make the EFI arm stub device tree loader default on to unbreak existing EFI boot loaders which do not have DTB support.
Thanks,
tglx
------------------> Scott Branden (1): efi/libstub/arm: default EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER to y
drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig index d8e159feb573..89110dfc7127 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig @@ -90,14 +90,17 @@ config EFI_ARMSTUB config EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER bool "Enable the DTB loader" depends on EFI_ARMSTUB + default y help Select this config option to add support for the dtb= command line parameter, allowing a device tree blob to be loaded into memory from the EFI System Partition by the stub. - The device tree is typically provided by the platform or by - the bootloader, so this option is mostly for development - purposes only. + If the device tree is provided by the platform or by + the bootloader this option may not be needed. + But, for various development reasons and to maintain existing + functionality for bootloaders that do not have such support + this option is necessary. config EFI_BOOTLOADER_CONTROL tristate "EFI Bootloader Control"
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