On 14 March 2018 at 19:33, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Joel Stanley [off-list ref] wrote:

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When we removed the inclusion of skeleton.dtsi from the device trees, we
broke booting for systems with bootloaders that aren't device tre aware.
This can be seen, for example, when appending the device tree blob to
the kernel image.

The reason booting broke was that the kernel lacked the device_type
label in the memory node. Add in a default memory node wth the
device_type. It can contain the memory address as the location is fixed
for each SoC generation, but the size needs to be added by the
bootloader or the board specific dts.

Fixes: 73102d6fdc32 ("ARM: dts: aspeed: Remove skeleton.dtsi")
Cc: <redacted>
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
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Arnd, can you please merge this as a fix for 4.16?

Sure, applied to fixes branch now.

Thanks!

Has this been sent to Linus?