[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Raspberry PI 3 kernel, firmware and dtb update

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Apr 19 21:33:21 UTC 2016


Ubaldo, Peter, All,

On 2016-04-19 22:45 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Ubaldo" == Ubaldo Porcheddu <ubaldo at eja.it> writes:
> 
>  > Signed-off-by: Ubaldo Porcheddu <ubaldo at eja.it>
>  > ---
>  >  board/raspberrypi/genimage-raspberrypi2.cfg | 1 +
>  >  configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig              | 4 ++--
>  >  package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk        | 2 +-
>  >  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks for the patch, but can you instead split it up 2 seperate
> patches (with sensible descriptions) - One bumping the rpi-firmware
> version and one updating the rpi2 config to also support rpi3.
> 
> The rpi3 afaik uses a different serial port than rpi2. How will that
> work if we use the same defconfig for both boards? Perhaps it makes more
> sense to have a seperate raspberrypi3_defconfig?

Yes, expecially since the CPU is not the same, andthat we may^Wwill one
day have it run in 64-bit mode (one can dream, no?).

So yes, make it a separate defconfig, please.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  > diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/genimage-raspberrypi2.cfg b/board/raspberrypi/genimage-raspberrypi2.cfg
>  > index 443c821..453fb00 100644
>  > --- a/board/raspberrypi/genimage-raspberrypi2.cfg
>  > +++ b/board/raspberrypi/genimage-raspberrypi2.cfg
>  > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ image boot.vfat {
>  >    vfat {
>  >      files = {
>  >        "bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb",
>  > +      "bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb",
>  >        "rpi-firmware/bootcode.bin",
>  >        "rpi-firmware/cmdline.txt",
>  >        "rpi-firmware/config.txt",
>  > diff --git a/configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig b/configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig
>  > index ce41ee3..b77db14 100644
>  > --- a/configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig
>  > +++ b/configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig
>  > @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_1=y
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git"
>  > -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="d33d0293e245badc4ca6ede3984d8bb8ea63cb1a"
>  > +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="20fe468af4bb40fec0f81753da4b20a8bfc259c9"
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="bcm2709"
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_ZIMAGE=y
>  
>  >  # Build the DTB from the kernel sources
>  >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
>  > -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="bcm2709-rpi-2-b"
>  > +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="bcm2709-rpi-2-b bcm2710-rpi-3-b"
>  
>  >  BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE=y
>  >  # BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DTB_OVERLAYS is not set
>  > diff --git a/package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk b/package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk
>  > index 291da3a..8476678 100644
>  > --- a/package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk
>  > +++ b/package/rpi-firmware/rpi-firmware.mk
>  > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  >  #
>  >  ################################################################################
>  
>  > -RPI_FIRMWARE_VERSION = 8b4e5482b52e6fb438dddc0d88ba0ba8d44af54b
>  > +RPI_FIRMWARE_VERSION = 951799bbcd795ddf27769d14acf4813fdcbe53dc
>  >  RPI_FIRMWARE_SITE = $(call github,raspberrypi,firmware,$(RPI_FIRMWARE_VERSION))
>  >  RPI_FIRMWARE_LICENSE = BSD-3c
>  >  RPI_FIRMWARE_LICENSE_FILES = boot/LICENCE.broadcom
>  > -- 
>  > 1.9.1
> 
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> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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