From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "'barebox@lists.infradead.org'" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>,
"Dgien, David [US] (MS)" <David.Dgien@ngc.com>
Subject: Re: Barebox device tree overlay support
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:14:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180112101451.h3yk5iqhnh2lcwac@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180112101132.ebgz3aqj5scahe5a@flea.lan>
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:11:32AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:42:26AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 03:40:49PM +0000, Dgien, David [US] (MS) wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > When going through the archives it looks like a set of patches
> > > were submitted to support device tree overlays in barebox in
> > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2015-March/022674.html.
> > > But they weren't accepted because overlays weren't fully
> > > implemented in the DTC yet.
> > >
> > > It looks like overlay support was mainlined in the kernel in
> > > 4.11. ( kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git:
> > > be5165a51d2500ae1afa1236a8b09858831fdf7e )
> >
> > I am still not sure which parts got merged and which are still pending.
> > There are still overlay patches floating around.
>
> The only thing that's missing in the kernel at the moment is a
> user-space interface to load overlays, but the rest has been there for
> quite some time.
>
> > > Would it be possible to take another look at pulling these patches
> > > into the barebox mainline?
> >
> > Generally yes. If you like, please rebase test and respin the patches.
>
> The libfdt gained support to apply overlays quite some time ago
> already, so this should be as easy as updating it to a recent enough
> version, and creating a wrapper around fdt_apply. This is what U-Boot
> is doing.
barebox does not use libfdt.
Sascha
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2018-01-11 15:40 Dgien, David [US] (MS)
2018-01-12 7:42 ` Sascha Hauer
2018-01-12 10:11 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-01-12 10:14 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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