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    efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence · 0bcaa904
    Mark Rutland authored
    
    
    In the absence of a DTB configuration table, the EFI stub will happily
    continue attempting to boot a kernel, despite the fact that this kernel
    may not function without a description of the hardware. In this case, as
    with a typo'd "dtb=" option (e.g. "dbt=") or many other possible
    failures, the only output seen by the user will be the rather terse
    output from the EFI stub:
    
    EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
    
    To aid those attempting to debug such failures, this patch adds a notice
    when no DTB is found, making the output more helpful:
    
    EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
    EFI stub: Generating empty DTB
    
    Additionally, a positive acknowledgement is added when a user-specified
    DTB is in use:
    
    EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
    EFI stub: Using DTB from command line
    
    Similarly, a positive acknowledgement is added when a DTB from a
    configuration table is in use:
    
    EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
    EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarLeif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarRoy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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