dtb/dts file configuration

[El Smiedro]

Hello everyone,

currently I am using a BBB with debian 3.8.13 and I would like to change the dtb file to get some GPIO-pins with pulldown by default. I searched many sites, but I think many information are not up to date (read something about the device tree is not used anymore?!). Is somewhere a good and current documentation/tutorial for this topic? Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards
   eric

[evilwulfie]

to test what you want use a device overlay first.
then you can adapt the overlay to be loaded at boot time

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[El Smiedro]

And do you know how to adapt it to the boot time?

[Jane]

Hi, 

For beagle bone black or beagleboard you can follow this link to build the kernel and the device tree.

to modify the device tree for beagleboneblack you have to edit KERNEL/arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-boneblack.dts and run the tools/rebuild.sh , this will not only compiles the kernel but also the modules and the dtbs.

in order to change the default gpio you cab do this like this : 

mycustom-gpio = <&gpio1 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;

or 

mycustom-gpio = <&gpio1 17 0>;

0 = GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH while 1 = GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW

above code will set the 17 pin of gpio bank 1 as active low , this is basically 32*1+17 = 49th Gpio that is 23rd pin on the P9 header.

you can google begaleboneblack P9 header or P8 header : http://www.siue.edu/~gengel/bbbWebStuff/BeagleboneBlackP9HeaderTable.pdf

Hope it helps !

Thanks and Regards,

Saurabh

[Jane]

link of the last post was : https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black