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

[Diederik de Haas]

On woensdag 7 april 2021 18:48:07 CEST Ernst Bammer wrote:
> upstream has lots of device tree overlays

FYI: technically, the RPF kernel is consider downstream

> 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?

"Mainline doesn't build dtb files with the appropriate symbols for
overlays to work, therefore they generally can't be applied."

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