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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 00:13:05 JST minute

   why can't we have `dtoverlay` in mainline linux? do i really have to reboot every time i want to tweak a device node property like some tx delay? this can't seriously be the normal way?

   • Timon 🛠 (timonsku@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 00:44:20 JST Timon 🛠

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     @mntmn I often think that when doing kernel development.
     But even dtoverlay fails when certain subsystems are involved that can't reload their drivers properly at runtime, it always feels like luck if reloading works or not.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 01:55:17 JST minute

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     • Timon 🛠

     @timonsku yeah that's true unfortunately ;/

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:54:01 JST minute

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     • deBaer

     @deBaer no there is no loader mechanism/tool for it, except for raspberry pi who have some patch that exposes it in configfs

   • deBaer (debaer@23.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:54:02 JST deBaer

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     @mntmn On everything that's Open Firmware or any of its decendants, isn't that the case? .dtb and .dtbo have been in mainline since a least 2005. I just don't think there's an equivalent on legacy UEFI platforms yet.