[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add rpi3 b+ support

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Mar 18 19:07:44 UTC 2018


Martin, All,

On 2018-03-16 21:06 +0000, Martin Bark spake thusly:
> On 16 March 2018 at 19:41, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > Hello Martin,
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:02:25 +0000, Martin Bark wrote:
> >
> >> Martin Bark (7):
> >>   package/rpi-firmware: bump version
> >>   configs/raspberrypi*: bump kernel version
> >>   board/raspberrypi: add support for rpi3 b+
> >>   package/rpi-firmware: improve installation of dtb files
> >>   package/rpi-bt-firmware: change to LibreELEC github repo
> >>   package/rpi-wifi-firmware: change to LibreELEC github repo
> >>   DEVELOPERS: add myself for rpi packages
> >
> > Since you're looking at RPi stuff, could you have a look at
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/779105/, which is sitting in
> > patchwork since quite a while ?
> 
> Yes i can look at this.
> 
> The only reason for this seems to be the use of the pi3-miniuart-bt
> overlay.  Personally i never use this overlay, I set enable_uart=1 in
> config.txt (the same as raspi-config does).  Is there a reason
> buildroot favours the pi3-miniuart-bt overlay?
> 
> If we switched to using enable_uart=1 there would be no reason to
> include the overlays and no reason for this separate rpi0w defconifg.

I am all iun favour of simplifying and fixing things! Please send a
patch! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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