Hi Geert, > On May 7, 2015, at 10:17 , Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5 May 2015 at 17:18, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> 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). >
Posted the patches recently, but for your convenience here’s the git tree. https://github.com/pantoniou/dtc/tree/dt-overlays5 FWIW, I’ll post the capemgr patch today too. > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > ge...@linux-m68k.org > > 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 Regards — Pantelis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
