loader warnings with LOADER_FDT_SUPPORT
Colin Percival <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi all, The arm64 EFI loader is built with LOADER_FDT_SUPPORT, which is probably the correct default, but when the loader has LOADER_FDT_SUPPORT set it emits some unnecessarily scary warnings on many systems: > No valid device tree blob found! > WARNING! Trying to fire up the kernel, but no device tree blob found! Since many systems legitimately don't have DTBs, can we remove this warning and/or make it conditional on some check as to whether we think a DTB might be needed? In particular since this is the last thing the loader prints, it has sent a few people down rabbit holes when the serial console in the loader works but the serial console in the kernel doesn't, since they assume this message is somehow related to the lack of further console output. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid