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

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Jan 20 2021 - 23:19:38 EST


On 20-01-21, 09:43, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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?

I have dropped the overlay files which were updating the root-node as
it looks like it shouldn't be done. Frank suggested (in his patch) to
drop overlay.dtb and I dropped overlay_base.dtb as well.

With that no other fixes are required.

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viresh