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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) | |
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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>
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Contents: 2.H. Images 2.I. Boot to U-Boot 2.J. Image with Initramfs + 2.K. Device tree support 3. Extra apps 3.A. omxplayer 4. Source code and mirrors @@ -171,6 +172,18 @@ To build an initramfs image : * Set the meta-rasberrypi variable (in raspberrypi.conf for example) - KERNEL_INITRAMFS = "-initramfs" +2.K. Device tree support +========================= +Device tree for RPi is only supported when using linux-raspberrypi 3.18+ +kernels. + + * Set KERNEL_DEVICETREE (in conf/machine/raspberrypi.conf) + - the trailer is added to the kernel image before kernel install task. + While creating the SDCard image, this modified kernel is put on + boot partition (as kernel.img) as well as DeviceTree blobs (.dtb files). + +NOTE: KERNEL_DEVICETREE is empty by default. + 3. Extra apps ============= @@ -247,7 +260,7 @@ In order to manage and trace the meta-raspberrypi issues, we use redmine: Here we report, trace and develop bugs, features or support tickets for this yocto BSP later. -If you push patches which have a remine issue associated, please provide the +If you push patches which have a redmine issue associated, please provide the issue number in the commit log just before "Signed-off-by" line(s). Example line for a bug: [Bug #13] |