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Yona-Appletree / LEDscape

Beagle Bone Black cape and firmware for driving a large number of WS281x LED strips.
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add a note for the location of dtbs #2

Closed dbu closed 10 years ago

dbu commented 10 years ago

I just got a BeagleBone Black revision C with debian pre-installed. it mounts as a usb drive to the host and the only way i found to change the .dtb file was to overwrite it from the host system.

BTW, reading about bts (which i never heard about before) i noticed that maybe you could instead of the dtb provide a dtbo, an overlay, which would not replace the original dtb but add things. maybe easier to maintain and keeps all other hardware alive. this repository however seems to not contain the source file .dts

Yona-Appletree commented 10 years ago

Dbu, it would certainly be better to use an overlay, but I have little experience with using them and haven't wanted to spend the time to figure it out. I would be very open to a pull request with the necessary files, however. Or a good explanation/tutorial on how to set one up.

I think your addition is correct in terms of the location of the files, but you should be able to change them from the BBB itself by mounting the /boot/uboot partition locally "mount /boot/uboot" if the system is not connected to a host via USB.

dbu commented 10 years ago

i changed the readme, better like this?

unfortunately i only read the first time about the device tree in the readme of this repository, so i am no help here :-S.