Raspberry Pi HowTo - dtoverlay change

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat May 14 14:39:30 UTC 2016


Frank Nicholas <frank at nicholasfamilycentral.com>:
> From this page:  
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=139732
> 
> They are changing the way overlays work.  There will be old overlays with “-overlay” as part of the name, and a new dynamic overlay format **without** the “-overlay” as part of the name.
> 
> The bootloader system is intelligent enough to add “-overlay” if needed.  They are recommending to **NOT** include “-overlay” as part of the “dtoverlay=“ line.
> 
> In the HowTo, this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Disable Bluetooth so serial-tty speed is no longer tied to CPU speed
> dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt-overlay
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Should be changed to:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Disable Bluetooth so serial-tty speed is no longer tied to CPU speed
> dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This becomes important with the latest kernel/Raspian (released 2016-05-10), which includes the new dynamic overlay format:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 

THanks, change made.
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