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

[Ernst Bammer]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:10 PM Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org> wrote:
> 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

sure  ;-)

> "Mainline doesn't build dtb files with the appropriate symbols for
> overlays to work, therefore they generally can't be applied."
> 
> src: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rpi-kernel/2021-April/008103.html

Thanks for that information. So overlays wouldn't work with the debian kernel, even if freshly compiled with dtc? Then you can probably close this bug.