[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add rpi3 b+ support

[Martin Bark]

On 18 March 2018 at 19:07, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> Martin, All,
>
> On 2018-03-16 21:06 +0000, Martin Bark spake thusly:
>> On 16 March 2018 at 19:41, Thomas Petazzoni
>> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Martin,
>> >
>> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:02:25 +0000, Martin Bark wrote:
>> >
>> >> Martin Bark (7):
>> >>   package/rpi-firmware: bump version
>> >>   configs/raspberrypi*: bump kernel version
>> >>   board/raspberrypi: add support for rpi3 b+
>> >>   package/rpi-firmware: improve installation of dtb files
>> >>   package/rpi-bt-firmware: change to LibreELEC github repo
>> >>   package/rpi-wifi-firmware: change to LibreELEC github repo
>> >>   DEVELOPERS: add myself for rpi packages
>> >
>> > Since you're looking at RPi stuff, could you have a look at
>> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/779105/, which is sitting in
>> > patchwork since quite a while ?
>>
>> Yes i can look at this.
>>
>> The only reason for this seems to be the use of the pi3-miniuart-bt
>> overlay.  Personally i never use this overlay, I set enable_uart=1 in
>> config.txt (the same as raspi-config does).  Is there a reason
>> buildroot favours the pi3-miniuart-bt overlay?
>>
>> If we switched to using enable_uart=1 there would be no reason to
>> include the overlays and no reason for this separate rpi0w defconifg.
>
> I am all iun favour of simplifying and fixing things! Please send a
> patch! ;-)

Yes i will do

Thanks

Martin

>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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