Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 11/11] arm64: dts: add Pine64 support

From	Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Subject	Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 11/11] arm64: dts: add Pine64 support
Date	2016-02-09 21:40 +0100
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Hi,

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:55:43 +1100
Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe that device tree overlays are the generally recommended method.

I agree. But last time I tried, the device tree compiler didn't 
support overlays - neither in Debian nor in the in-kernel dtc ("-@" is 
unsupported; last tried with linux-4.3-rc7). 

And even if you could compile them, the platform has to support specifying which 
overlays to use in the first place (for example as a Linux cmdline option). 

For example Beaglebone Black (TI Sitara) does. I don't know whether sunxi does.

Also, the overlay dts files are very different from normal dts files, see 
<http://www.patternagents.com/news/2015/01/29/devicetree-overlays.html>.

The original Linux device tree changeset patchset also introduced an in-kernel 
interface for loading/unloading of DT overlays at runtime. AFAIK, this is still 
not available to user space.

More info at <https://lwn.net/Articles/616859/>.

(I tried some 4 months ago - it wasn't integrated enough. 
 So now I just patch the main dts every time - which I probably shouldn't)

Regards,
   Danny

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Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 11/11] arm64: dts: add Pine64 support Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> - 2016-02-09 21:40 +0100

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