[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH v4 0/5] Support for .dtbo files for dtb overlays, required by kernels 4.4.6+

Herve Jourdain herve.jourdain at neuf.fr
Tue Jun 14 22:37:35 PDT 2016


Hi Andrei,

I believe it still has not been merged...
Shall I send a ping?

Herve

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Gherzan [mailto:andrei at gherzan.ro] 
Sent: mercredi 15 juin 2016 01:54
To: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain at neuf.fr>
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH v4 0/5] Support for .dtbo
files for dtb overlays, required by kernels 4.4.6+

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:46:30AM +0800, Herve Jourdain wrote:
> v4: rebased
> For kernels 4.4.9+, the behavior for the device tree overlays loading has
been modified on RaspberryPi.
> For overlays, it loads .dtbo files, not .dtb anymore.
> Also, it does not check for -overlay extension, so the name of the overlay
that is placed in the "overlays" directory must be <overlay_name>.dtbo,
instead of <overlay_name>-overlay.dtb.
>
> This patch addresses the issue for kernels 4.4+, while keeping the same
behavior for older kernels.
> This patch must be used in conjunction with another patch to
meta/recipes-kernel/linux-dtb.inc, which will allow the processing of .dtbo
files for overlays, instead of only .dtb like before.
>

Is the poky patch merged? It doesn't seem it was.

--
Andrei Gherzan




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