Quoting Guenter Roeck (2024-10-08 16:27:37)
> On 10/8/24 16:12, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > The best I can come up with then is to test for a NULL of_root when
> > CONFIG_ARM64 and CONFIG_ACPI are enabled, because the tests
> > intentionally don't work when both those configs are enabled and the
> > 'of_root' isn't populated. In all other cases the 'of_root' missing is a
> > bug. I'll probably make this into some sort of kunit helper function in
> > of_private.h and send it to DT maintainers.
> 
> Sounds good. Thanks a lot for tracking this down.
> 
> That makes me wonder though why only arm64 has that restriction. Both
> riscv and loongarch have ACPI enabled in their defconfig files but call
> unflatten_device_tree() unconditionally.
> 
> Oh well ...

Some of the reason is described in the thread I linked earlier. In
particular, this email from Mark[1]. There's also more comments from
Mark on an earlier patchset[2]. Maybe arm64 will allow it later, and
then we'll be able to revert this skip patch.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/zd4dqpho7em1j...@fvff77s0q05n.cambridge.arm.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZaZtbU9hre3YhZam@FVFF77S0Q05N/

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