Hi Uwe, All, On 5/30/23 20:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > based on an earlier submission by Aurelien Jarno, I rebased and slightly > simplified the patches. > > There was some related irc conversion in #armlinux. Quoting the relevant > parts: > > 1685078851< ukleinek> arnd, [florian]: Who would pick up https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220410225940.135744-1-aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx ? > 1685078920< ukleinek> arnd, [florian]: If there is an agreement in general that this is a good idea, I can coordinate with Aurelien that for arm64 there is a v2 with the simpler approach I pointed out. > 1685083481< arnd> ukleinek: I have no objections to this, if [florian] wants to pick it up and send me for 6.5. > 1685083809< arnd> robher: any comments on this one? > 1685466520 < [florian]> ukleinek: I was hoping we would get an Ack for robher before picking it up in the brcm soc tree, don't want to ruffle any feathers unnecessarily > > So it seems to start a beneficial chain reaction, only Rob's Ack is > needed. > > As these two changes would greatly simplify the application of dtbos for > rpi hats, I look forward to Rob agreeing to them. I'm interested in enabling this feature too. We used device tree overlays for Microchip AT91 boards for some time. I can prepare a similar patch to enable them upstream. > > Best regards > Uwe Regards, Cristi > > Aurelien Jarno (2): > arm64: dts: broadcom: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi > devices > arm: dts: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi devices > > arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) > > base-commit: ac9a78681b921877518763ba0e89202254349d1b