[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#986579: raspi3-firmware: Consider packaging device tree overlays (if they would be possibly working)

[Ernst Bammer]

Package: raspi3-firmware
Version: 1.20190215-1+deb10u4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

upstream has lots of device tree overlays (which enable numerous features on Raspberry Pi devices) in /boot/overlays:
<https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot/overlays>

Would it be possible to also include them in raspi-firmware?

As a side note, I manually downloaded all the overlays and put them into /boot/firmware/overlays, and then tried to enable them via `dtoverlay=someoverlay` in config.txt, but it didn't seem to work. Am I missing something?

Thank you very much!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.9
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages raspi3-firmware depends on:
ii  dosfstools  4.1-2

raspi3-firmware recommends no packages.

raspi3-firmware suggests no packages.

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