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| author | Petter Mabäcker <petter@technux.se> | 2015-02-06 23:16:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Petter Mabäcker <petter@technux.se> | 2015-02-06 23:33:52 +0100 |
| commit | 4905c7cc2b72110e5254bb0172ffccfc0f582a40 (patch) | |
| tree | c15086bc094fa34aafdcc90bf692ee0e2595f2aa | |
| parent | 4dc75cedf738989c606766c4090f27da3a7d5cfd (diff) | |
| download | meta-raspberrypi-4905c7cc2b72110e5254bb0172ffccfc0f582a40.tar.gz | |
README: add info about device tree support
Add basic info about device tree support for RPi and how to use
KERNEL_DEVICETREE.
Also fix minor typo in the section about redmine.
Change-Id: Ibfee31e319c421c09d6e9cbfbe83364e8d055b95
Signed-off-by: Petter Mabäcker <petter@technux.se>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
| @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Contents: | |||
| 24 | 2.H. Images | 24 | 2.H. Images |
| 25 | 2.I. Boot to U-Boot | 25 | 2.I. Boot to U-Boot |
| 26 | 2.J. Image with Initramfs | 26 | 2.J. Image with Initramfs |
| 27 | 2.K. Device tree support | ||
| 27 | 3. Extra apps | 28 | 3. Extra apps |
| 28 | 3.A. omxplayer | 29 | 3.A. omxplayer |
| 29 | 4. Source code and mirrors | 30 | 4. Source code and mirrors |
| @@ -171,6 +172,18 @@ To build an initramfs image : | |||
| 171 | * Set the meta-rasberrypi variable (in raspberrypi.conf for example) | 172 | * Set the meta-rasberrypi variable (in raspberrypi.conf for example) |
| 172 | - KERNEL_INITRAMFS = "-initramfs" | 173 | - KERNEL_INITRAMFS = "-initramfs" |
| 173 | 174 | ||
| 175 | 2.K. Device tree support | ||
| 176 | ========================= | ||
| 177 | Device tree for RPi is only supported when using linux-raspberrypi 3.18+ | ||
| 178 | kernels. | ||
| 179 | |||
| 180 | * Set KERNEL_DEVICETREE (in conf/machine/raspberrypi.conf) | ||
| 181 | - the trailer is added to the kernel image before kernel install task. | ||
| 182 | While creating the SDCard image, this modified kernel is put on | ||
| 183 | boot partition (as kernel.img) as well as DeviceTree blobs (.dtb files). | ||
| 184 | |||
| 185 | NOTE: KERNEL_DEVICETREE is empty by default. | ||
| 186 | |||
| 174 | 3. Extra apps | 187 | 3. Extra apps |
| 175 | ============= | 188 | ============= |
| 176 | 189 | ||
| @@ -247,7 +260,7 @@ In order to manage and trace the meta-raspberrypi issues, we use redmine: | |||
| 247 | Here we report, trace and develop bugs, features or support tickets for this | 260 | Here we report, trace and develop bugs, features or support tickets for this |
| 248 | yocto BSP later. | 261 | yocto BSP later. |
| 249 | 262 | ||
| 250 | If you push patches which have a remine issue associated, please provide the | 263 | If you push patches which have a redmine issue associated, please provide the |
| 251 | issue number in the commit log just before "Signed-off-by" line(s). Example line | 264 | issue number in the commit log just before "Signed-off-by" line(s). Example line |
| 252 | for a bug: | 265 | for a bug: |
| 253 | [Bug #13] | 266 | [Bug #13] |
