Questions tagged [device-tree]
A data structure for describing hardware. passed in boot time to kernel
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How does the same Linux version work on different hardware
My understanding is that the kernel understands how to communicate with the different hardware in a system via specific device trees.
How is it that I can download one version of Ubuntu and I am ...
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Can I generate a single device tree dts file from all the files in my device kernel?
I need to fix a driver that is using a node in the device tree, the problem is that the node and it's aliases are all over the place, separated through few different files with few overrides and it is ...
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mmc0 warning on SD card bootup of linux
I get the following warning on debian linux (kernel 4.18.8) bootup of my microchip sama5d3 board:
mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 4
mmc0: error -22 whilst initialising SD card
after spewing ...
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Kernel driver, is pinctrl-0 property always needed with GPIO overlay?
I'm creating a kernel driver for SPI controlled display, which is meant to be working with Raspberry PI. I'm not sure about a one thing that I see sometimes in device tree overlays created by other ...
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How does Linux find/configure something like 'wlan0' when it is not a device that appears in /dev?
(On raspberry pi zero w, kernel 4.14y) It seems the wireless adapter chip isn't a device in the /dev fs, but is the name of something that 'ifconfig' knows about. I understand that this is an ...
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How to get the currently selected IOMUX on a running ARM?
I am currently configuring the IOMUX on a i.MX 6 using pinctrl via the Linux device tree. For this it would be helpful to get the currently selected configuration of a given pin on the running system. ...
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Device-tree blob (DTB) in a separate partition
Currently, I have the device-tree blob (DTB) appended to the Linux kernel. I would like to split the DTB from the kernel to an unique partition containing only the DTB similar to the figure 3 of the ...
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DT bindings for ADT7516 sensor
I have a BeagleBone green and ADT7516's evaluation board connected with SDA and SCL pins.
When I do i2cdetect -y -r 2, I can see the i2c address as 0x4b and I am able to probe the adt7316 driver ...
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Linux Device Drivers - Probe function not called, but driver getting deferred
I've been trying to get an MCP2515 can controller working on a spi-gpio bus in my device tree, but the MCP251x driver's probe function never seems to actually be called. Oddly enough though, some ...
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Change device tree on boot
There is a hardware SPI device on my platform, but it doesn't appear in /dev.
I read in internet that the hardware description is read during boor from device tree files (dtb).
The problem is that I ...
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Devicetree parallel CSI OV7670
I'm currently trying to get an image with fswebcam out of my OV7670 camera, but I only get a completly green image.
Could you look over my devicetree if I made some obvious mistakes?
board-file.dts:
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How to initialize multiple I2C sound devices with one device tree overlay?
I am currently stuck in implementing a new device tree overlay to initialize two sound controller: PCM5142 and WM8804.
The used board is the DACBerry ONE (https://www.osaelectronics.com/product/...
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embedded system no longer boots via eMMC - Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive [closed]
I have Arch linux on multiple Embedded boards that are similar to Odroid C2. To resolve a DTB file issue, I wrote dtb.img to /dev/dtb of the eMMC via the command :
dd if="/boot/dtb.img" of="/dev/dtb"...
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How does kernel know which device tree to load?
Device tree is used at runtime on ARM devices to identify and load correct drivers with its configuration. But when I look into loaded DT at /proc/device-tree on my phone for example, there are many ...
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Device tree - defining peripherials switched off at boot
I have a board with i2c device(accelerometer) connected to mcu. I inserted the device node to my device tree file and everything works fine - device is detected, i can read measurements etc.
However,...
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Is it possible to declare a regulator in the device tree that can power down the system
If I have, for example, a fixed-regulator declared in my device tree, how can I request Linux to call the disable function after shutting down?
Note, I use a custom regulator driver (not fixed-...
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How can I tell my kernel not to place external drives before internal ones?
I have some internal drivers, which typically take the names /dev/sda ... /dev/sdc. However, if I plug in an external HDD and reboot, this gets reordered, with the external drive taking up /dev/sdb ...
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Uboot Hangs when Initrd size increased in FIT image
Im booting Linux on arm64 using FIT multi image (image + initrd + DTB). So if I increase the initrd size (from 16 MB -> 20MB) board hangs at "starting kernel"). However if I change the load address of ...
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BeagleBoneBlack device tree changes to add i2c device driver ()
I'm trying to run an i2c device driver on the BeagleBoneBlack using i2c2 pins [P9]: (19) I2C2_SCL, (20) I2C2_SDA.
I can use i2c2 successfully from user space to control the same atmel touchscreen ...
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How to wake up pi device through gpio pin
I am an orange pi armbian linux user.I need to modify the device tree to perform a wake up operation on Linux devices.But it does not seem to be exactly in line with the guidelines I've looked at on ...
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Want pulldown on gpio pin
I would like to have the default for certain input pins be a weak pulldown. I am using a sama5d36 running Debian 4.12.8. I modified the dts file as follows:
ahb {
abp {
pinctrl@fffff200 ...
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What is the preferred way to unhog a hogged GPIO pin?
So I'm doing development on an ARM embedded system which is using the device trees. We're going to integrate a small PCB with a processor and support components onto a bigger PCB, which will be the ...
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Accessing I2C slave devices that are specified in Device Tree
I'm trying to communicate with a device over I2C from my BeagleBone Black, and I'm a bit curious as to the device tree's interpretation of I2C. I see that there are a couple of device nodes within ...
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Generate bootable ELF from bootloader, kernel, device tree, ramdisk
I'm new to Linux Kernel programming, and am pretty stuck with (what I think is) the last step in building my bootable image.
For some background, we are trying to upload a complete OS image onto the ...
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Can you toggle a regulator device from the terminal?
I've been working on a custom embedded board, and set up a few pins as regulator-fixed in a custom device tree - they control power to devices on the board and some drivers need them provided as ...
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Loading a kernel module at run time using “compatible” property of device node in device-tree
If I know the "compatible" property string of a device(from the device tree), can I use it at runtime to load the corresponding kernel driver module? I do not have access to the driver source. I am ...
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Write to M25P80 Flash
I am looking for a way to move data onto a Micron M25P80 Flash Card over SPI bus on a Xilinx Zynq 7100 emulated in QEMU. I am not sure which driver to use. I would like to use the Cadence SPI driver ...
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Why do embedded systems need device tree while pcs don't?
When booting a kernel in an embedded device, you need to supply a device tree to the Linux kernel, while booting a kernel on a regular x86 pc doesn't require a device tree -- why?
As I understand, on ...
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What are the values of the device tree interrupts property?
I'm trying to understand the device tree interrupts property and can not find a good explanation.
For example if there is a node with the following lines:
interrupt-parent = <&gpio5>;
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Change device name in /sys/class
I would like to know if there is a way to rename device under sysfs?
For example, I have a class regulator with severals devices under it
# ls /sys/class/regulator/
regulator.0 regulator.11 ...
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How to debug a driver failing to bind to a device on Linux?
I am trying to figure out why the following device is not setup to its driver on my Creator CI20. For reference I am using a Linux kernel v4.13.0 and doing the compilation locally:
make ARCH=mips ...
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Jetson-K1 board slower than expected — “missing clock-frequency property”
I did some lmbench with my Jetson board with Tegra-K1 and Debian Stretch and got only 3900 for the STREAM copy (online I find 6430) and 2730 for the scale (online 6400).
When just adding ...
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What is the difference between board level and Soc level information in DTS(device tree source) and DTSI?
For Device Tree Blob it says several boards can use one SoC so the SoC level information is included in board level in order not to be duplicated(DTSI is included in DTS). So
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Register r1 and r2 in boot process [closed]
Please tell me about the register r1 and r2 that bootloader uses to pass the information to the kernel. What are they? where are they located? and some details.
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What is the need of device tree in linux?
I know device tree used to map the actual hardware information with the device, but for the drivers can't we do it through the driver itself, if that is possible then what is the need of device tree.
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Confusion regarding #interrupt-cells configuration on PCA9555 expander
I'm trying to setup a device tree source file for the first time on my custom platform. On the board is a NXP PCA9555 gpio expander. I'm attempting to setup node for the device and am a bit confused.
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dtoverlay parameters being ignored
Attempting to calibrate a touchscreen, only the first of xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax is accepted. No matter what order, only the first has any effect.
dtoverlay=ads7846,penirq=25,speed=10000,penirq_pull=2,...
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current question: How can I decompile an arm firmware file, to get the device tree file?
I am trying to flash libreelec on an android TV box without having an image I could throw in the libreelec toaster. On the RPi it was quite simple, here I guess I have to compile stuff, I don't really ...
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U-boot could not find a valid device tree
I have a problem: my device (an Atmel SAMA5D27 Xplained board) won't boot after my attempt to flash a new device tree.
Here's what I did (details are at the end of this message):
I downloaded the ...
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Is a device tree blob tied to a specific linux kernel version?
I was asking myself if a certain dtb that works with linux kernel version 3.18 is compatible with a linux kernel version 4.9.
I suppose not, because kernel code concerning the device tree likely ...
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Is there information such as Operation Mode (Booting Mode) in the device tree?
Good morning.
I am studying Device Tree of Kernel.
I use an ARM board.
According to the information of Operation Mode(Booting Mode) Register, the device medium used for booting the ARM board is set ...
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Why are ARM SoCs so seemingly hard to handle with the Kernel?
When I have some Linux distribution installed on a x64 system, for example I can pretty much unplug my storage drive put it into another x64 machine, install a few HL drivers, like the graphics driver ...
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Trying to understand device tree entry for usart
I'm pretty new to device tree programming, I'm trying to understand the interrupts line that shows up in the device tree for SAMA5D36 USART dts definition:
usart2: serial@f8020000 {
compatible = "...
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U-Boot : boot without reloading DTB
I'm using U-Boot on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module. The boot process is :
RPi firmware --> U-Boot --> Linux
I'm setting up some things about devices in the config.txt, that is used by the RPi firmware....
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Device Tree Overlay fragment notifies and loads children twice
I have the following device tree overlay fragment, and when it's loaded, spidev is added twice:
fragment@0 {
target = <&fpga>;
__overlay__ {
#address-cells = <1>;
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Device load on initramfs broke on dist-upgrade
I'm working on raspberry, with raspbian wheezy, for a fun embedded project.
For this project, i need to display the project logo on the integrated touchscreen (tontec mz61561) as soon as it is powered....
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How do i Get SPI to work on allwinner A20 with kernel 4.4
I have configured the DTS file as required, am building my system using buildroot. find attached configuration file for buildroot and the configured DTS file.
Up-to this point i can see the spidev ...
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Modifying ethernet ports on device tree
We want to change the vitesse switch on mpc8308erdb with a ks8999 switch. And connect eTSEC0 and eTSEC1 to two separate ks8999 switches.
I want to know what files i should change in order for linux ...
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Console setting in initramfs (ARM)
I'm in the process of porting the embedded system for a picozed-based platform from the Xilinx-v2013.4 (3.12 kernel) to the Xilinx-v2016.2 (4.4 kernel). The former version still makes use of an ...
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How to list the kernel Device Tree [duplicate]
I am using an embedded Arm with a Debian build. How does one list the compiled devices from the device tree? I want to see if a device is already supported.
For those reading this, the "Device Tree" ...
