Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] dt: build overlays

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jan 20 2021 - 10:52:20 EST


On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:07 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Frank/Rob,
>
> I have picked all the related patches together into a single patchset,
> so they can be properly reviewed/tested.
>
> This patchset makes necessary changes to the kernel to add support for
> building overlays (%.dtbo) and the required fdtoverlay tool. This also
> builds static_test.dtb using some of the existing overlay tests present
> in drivers/of/unittest-data/ for better test coverage.
>
> Note that in order for anyone to test this stuff, you need to manually
> run the ./update-dtc-source.sh script once to fetch the necessary
> changes from the external DTC project (i.e. fdtoverlay.c and this[1]
> patch).

Do we need a fdtoverlay fix for applying root node changes?

Rob