From:  <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 8:54 AM
To:  <[email protected]>
Cc:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  [beagleboard] Re: AM335x Device Tree Overlay

> Hello Porkupan,
> 
> Thank you for your fast answer !
> I searched in the meta-ti > linux-ti-staging kernel
> (git://git.ti.com/ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git), and I didn't found it.
> 
> Does somebody know which files and dependencies are required to implement it ?
> 
> Le mercredi 5 mars 2014 17:11:19 UTC+1, porkupan a écrit :
>> I am not an expert, but I would guess that if your system didn't implement
>> capemgr, you won't be able to load device tree overlays.  I would assume the
>> capemgr would be an integral part of all kernels above 3.8, but I may be
>> wrong.  If you still use the device tree, you can edit the
>> am335x-bone-common.dtsi or am335x-boneblack.dts directly, and add the
>> appropriate "fragments" from the overlay source into the appropriate stanzas.
>> Then recompile the dtb, and copy it onto your board.
Rather use the extension .dtsi for your overlay and then in the
am-335x-boneblack.dts add /include/ ³your overlay.dtsi². Make your overlay
the last /include/

Regards
John
>> 
>> Otherwise you would have to implement/enable the capemgr.
>> 
>> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:24:28 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm using Yocto with [meta-ti] to create images for the Ti's AM335x EVM
>>> Starter Kit or a Beaglebone black (linux-ti-staging 3.12.10)
>>> 
>>> Since last days everything went perfectly fine, but I've now some issues
>>> with the device tree.
>>> 
>>> I created a device tree overlay (dtbo file) to enable SPI0 and now I'm
>>> looking how can I load this overlay during the runtime. I saw that the
>>> beaglebone team created a capemgr system to load dtbo dynamically (based on
>>> the I2C EEPROM data of the cape).
>>> 
>>> My question is, how can I load my overlay on my linux who didn't implement
>>> the capemgr... Is there a standard way to do that ? It should be possible I
>>> guess, but I'm not a device tree specialist.
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance for your help !
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Piziwate
> 
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