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BeagleBone Black IO Plugin for Johnny-Five
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Remove usage of Kernel Overlays #49

Closed fivdi closed 6 years ago

fivdi commented 6 years ago

beaglebone.org is in the process of removing support for Kernel Overlays and have replaced it with U-Boot Overlays. In Kernel v4.15+ only U-Boot Overlays will be supported.

This PR removes the last usage of Kernel Overlays from BeagleBone-IO. A Kernel Overlay was used to enable ADC if it wasn't already enabled.

Another reason not to use Kernel Overlays directly from BeagleBone-IO is that the usage requires root privileges.

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