Call for Testing: Switching back to our BSD licensed dtc(1)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jul 20 15:45:40 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:05 AM, David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2016, at 05:48, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>
>> My concern with this is overlay support. Overlay support for "shields" or
>> "badges" is going into upstream GPL dtc shortly. The patches have been
>> kicking around for a while and are almost ready to go in. We need this feature
>> and I'd planned on bringing it into the tree as soon as it goes into the git
>> repo. It's sorely needed for things like RPi and BBB that make it super
>> easy to add boards with parts that need a bit more DTB into the FDT to
>> describe them. There's been patches to bring this functionality into the
>> loader and into the in-tree gpl dtc floating around for a while now.
>
> Is the syntax / semantics for overlays documented somewhere?
>
> David
>


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list