Hi,

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> (2021-01-25):
> Adding the -@ switch to dtc results in the binary devicetrees containing
> a list of symbolic references and their paths. This is necessary to
> apply device tree overlays e.g. on Raspberry Pi as described on
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md.
> 
> Obviously the downside of this change is an increas of the size of the

(as spotted by Uwe right after sending →) increase

> generated dtbs, for an arm out-of-tree build (multi_v7_defconfig):
> 
>       $ du -s arch/arm/boot/dts*
>       101380  arch/arm/boot/dts-pre
>       114308  arch/arm/boot/dts-post
> 
> so this is in average an increase of 12.8% in size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>

Tested-by: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>

with:
 - a Raspberry Pi CM3
 - a carrier board designed after the official IO Board V3
 - an RTC accessible over I²C, made functional via a DTB overlay, that
   can only be enabled once bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb has been generated with
   this patch applied.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/

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