Oh, and since I forgot to include that earlier, there’s a git tree against mainline that I update regularly: https://github.com/pantoniou/linux-beagle-track-mainline/tree/bbb-overlays Regards — Pantelis > On May 7, 2015, at 10:17 , Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 5 May 2015 at 17:18, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> where is a device tree compiler that can compile an overlay? >>> >>> The compiler at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git shrieks >>> there is a syntax error as soon as the /plugin/ tag is present. >> >> ok, so I found a dtc patch here https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/4/295 >> >> This does not apply cleanly to current DTC but the parts that fail are >> due to cosmetic changes in the code so I went ahead and applied it. > > Thanks for the link! That patch indeed requires some manual rework. > >> However, the created blob is not what the kernel can accept into >> of_overlay_create so what do I do with the blob to load it? > > Use "OF: DT-Overlay configfs interface" from Pantelis? > > That depends on "configfs: Implement binary attributes", also from Pantelis, > which requires reverting commit 28444a2bde8d1695i ("configfs_add_file: > fold into its sole caller"). > > All of the above require manual fixups to apply. > > Still have to try the actual loading, new to the overlay game on mainline > kernels (I did use it on boneblack with its original kernel and its overlay > manager). > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
