Re: Call for Testing: Switching back to our BSD licensed dtc(1)

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:45:39 -0600
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:05 AM, David Chisnall <theraven_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2016, at 05:48, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>
>> My concern with this is overlay support. Overlay support for "shields" or
>> "badges" is going into upstream GPL dtc shortly. The patches have been
>> kicking around for a while and are almost ready to go in. We need this feature
>> and I'd planned on bringing it into the tree as soon as it goes into the git
>> repo. It's sorely needed for things like RPi and BBB that make it super
>> easy to add boards with parts that need a bit more DTB into the FDT to
>> describe them. There's been patches to bring this functionality into the
>> loader and into the in-tree gpl dtc floating around for a while now.
>
> Is the syntax / semantics for overlays documented somewhere?
>
> David
>
Received on Wed Jul 20 2016 - 13:45:40 UTC

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