Re: PS3?

[Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>]

Hi Rob,

On 10/09/2017 09:48 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> That's source (dts) version. I'm talking about the dtb binary version.
> Forcing the version to 0x10 should confirm and workaround your issue.
> Assuming this is in fact the issue, then a fix would look something
> like this:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index 27c535af0be8..c78198de155d 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -1210,6 +1210,9 @@ bool __init early_init_dt_verify(void *params)
>         if (fdt_check_header(params))
>                 return false;
> 
> +       if (!fdt_offset_ptr(params))
> +               fdt_set_version(params, 16);
> +
>         /* Setup flat device-tree pointer */
>         initial_boot_params = params;
>         of_fdt_crc32 = crc32_be(~0, initial_boot_params,
> 

The boot fails later when processing the dtb.  I tracked it down
to exactly what happens a while ago, and decided it was better to
just work on an updated bootloader based on a new kernel.

-Geoff