Re: RPI: dtb files

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 16, 2020, at 1:20 AM, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 06:40:55AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 03:58:46PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>> I lean to "sync the armv7.img dtb contents with /boot".  I put that in
>>> the HOWTO since if you do that and boot the system comes up.
>> 
>> Note that this all changed in -current; there you only unpack the new "dtb"
>> set (with the EFI/FAT partition mounted as /boot).
> 
> Are overlay files meant to work? (in /boot/dtb/overlays)

I've used them on my ARMv6 RPI.  You have to specify the path to the .dtbo file in the RPI boot loader's config file, though.

That particular device is off and in a shoebox at the moment, but I will try to dig it out this weekend and provide an example of how to use them.

-- thorpej