From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:41:52 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs: beaglebone: update kernel to 4.1.13 and u-boot to 2015.10 In-Reply-To: <20160113095153.6b4f95cb@free-electrons.com> References: <1452653542-5562-1-git-send-email-mr.zoltan.gyarmati@gmail.com> <20160113095153.6b4f95cb@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <56981620.5020805@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 13-01-16 09:51, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Zoltan, > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 03:52:22 +0100, Zoltan Gyarmati wrote: > [snip] >> ...comment-block-of-fdt_get_property_namelen.patch | 32 + >> .../0002-fdt-Add-a-function-to-count-strings.patch | 246 +++ >> ...d-a-function-to-get-the-index-of-a-string.patch | 159 ++ >> ...004-fdt-Add-functions-to-retrieve-strings.patch | 173 ++ > > I am not supper happy with the solution of having those DTC patches > specifically for the BeagleBone platform. If I understand correctly, > those patches are needed to get the DT overlay to work, right ? I was the one suggesting that approach... > We had the same problem for the C.H.I.P platform, so it would also be > useful for us to have a overlay-capable DTC. You can see what my > colleague Antoine T?nart did: > > https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-buildroot/commit/1a73b514d204d0c6e9100d53011a11d99fd8b778 > https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-buildroot/commit/f3334df58611ff3cae5fd62906423fdce3d80d24 > https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-buildroot/commit/c4457eba3099f5ca514c06bb35b42772178a151a > > It is not ideal because it relies on a separate dtc-overlay package, > which packages a different version of dtc, which Antoine has cooked on > his own github repository. > > We really need to find a solution that is acceptable in the upstream > Buildroot, and applies to multiple platforms. Just thinking out loud: we could add an option to the dtc package that selects the overlay version. The canonical approach, however, would be to convert dtc to a virtual package with a dtc-kernel-org and a dtc-overlay implementation. Regards, Arnout [snip] -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF