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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-23 08:06:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-23 08:06:54 +0200 |
| commit | ea092676b0d9c13f20a3bc02c5b0bf537c27346e (patch) | |
| tree | 62dffcf80148d7e4c1f054a470d302eefbc2e292 | |
| parent | 10dc890d4228cd17ddfd09ba9aaa9221627e29b2 (diff) | |
| parent | 008d2f444222554289867e1686f1be1c1bcd0ef4 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Thomas writes:
"Make the EFI arm stub device tree loader default on to unbreak
existing EFI boot loaders which do not have DTB support."
* 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi/libstub/arm: default EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER to y
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files 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" |