The overclocking you can achieve will vary; overclocking too high may result in instability. Selecting this option shows the following warning:. Be aware that overclocking may reduce the lifetime of your Raspberry Pi. If overclocking at a certain level causes system instability, try a more modest overclock. Hold down the Shift key during boot to temporarily disable overclocking.
The localisation submenu gives you these options to choose from: keyboard layout, time zone, locale, and wireless LAN country code. Select your local time zone, starting with the region, e. Europe, then selecting a city, e. Type a letter to skip down the list to that point in the alphabet. This option opens another menu which allows you to select your keyboard layout. It will take a long time to display while it reads all the keyboard types.
Changes usually take effect immediately, but may require a reboot. This option will expand your installation to fill the whole SD card, giving you more space to use for files.
You will need to reboot the Raspberry Pi to make this available. See this page for more information. On the Raspberry Pi4, you can tell the system to use the very latest boot ROM software, or default to the factory default if the latest version causes problems. Use this button when you have completed your changes. You will be asked whether you want to reboot or not. There will be a delay in rebooting if you have chosen to resize your SD card. However if you are not using the Raspberry Pi Desktop, you can set up wireless networking from the command line.
Wireless connections can be made via the network icon at the right-hand end of the menu bar. If you are using a Pi with built-in wireless connectivity, or if a wireless dongle is plugged in, left-clicking this icon will bring up a list of available wireless networks, as shown below.
Wait a few seconds without closing the menu, and it should find your network. To set the country code, open the Raspberry Pi Configuration application from the Preferences Menu, select Localisation and set the appropriate code. The icons on the right show whether a network is secured or not, and give an indication of its signal strength. Click the network that you want to connect to. If it is secured, a dialogue box will prompt you to enter the network key:.
Enter the key and click OK , then wait a couple of seconds. The network icon will flash briefly to show that a connection is being made. When it is ready, the icon will stop flashing and show the signal strength. Note also that no additional software is required; everything you need is already included on the Raspberry Pi. The quickest way to enable wireless networking is to use the command line raspi-config tool.
Select the Localisation Options item from the menu, then the Change wireless country option. On a fresh install, for regulatory purposes, you will need to specify the country in which the device is being used. Then set the SSID of the network, and the passphrase for the network. If you do not know the SSID of the network you want to connect to, see the next section on how to list available networks prior to running raspi-config.
Note that raspi-config does not provide a complete set of options for setting up wireless networking; you may need to refer to the extra sections below for more details if raspi-config fails to connect the Pi to your requested network. To scan for wireless networks, use the command sudo iwlist wlan0 scan. This will list all available wireless networks, along with other useful information.
Look out for:. For most home routers, this is found on a sticker on the back of the router. The password can be configured either as the ASCII representation, in quotes as per the example above, or as a pre-encrypted 32 byte hexadecimal number. Then you will be asked for the password of the wireless network in this case testingPassword. The output is as follows:. Note that the plain text version of the code is present, but commented out. You can verify whether it has successfully connected using ifconfig wlan0.
If the inet addr field has an address beside it, the Raspberry Pi has connected to the network. You can do this using the raspi-config application: select the 'Localisation Options' menu, then 'Change Wi-Fi Country'. See Wikipedia for a list of 2 letter ISO country codes. On recent versions of Raspberry Pi OS, it is possible to set up multiple configurations for wireless networking.
For example, you could set up one for home and one for school. If you have two networks in range, you can add the priority option to choose between them. The network in range, with the highest priority, will be the one that is connected. By default, Raspberry Pi OS attempts to automatically configure all network interfaces by DHCP, falling back to automatic private addresses in the range This is consistent with the behaviour of other Linux variants and of Microsoft Windows.
For example:. You can find the names of the interfaces present on your system using the ip link command. Note that if you have several Raspberry Pis connected to the same network, you may find it easier instead to set address reservations on your DHCP server. In this way, each Pi will keep the same IP address, but they will all be managed in one place, making reconfiguring your network in the future more straightforward.
On Raspberry Pi systems where the graphical desktop is installed, a GUI tool called lxplug-network is used to allow the user to make changes to the configuration of dhcpcd , including setting static IP addresses. The lxplug-network tool is based on dhcpcd-ui , which was also developed by Roy Marples. If you do not use a monitor or keyboard to run your Pi known as headless , but you still need to do some wireless setup, there is a facility to enable wireless networking and SSH when creating a image.
Once an image is created on an SD card, by inserting it into a card reader on a Linux or Windows machines the boot folder can be accessed.
Adding certain files to this folder will activate certain setup features on the first boot of the Raspberry Pi. Put this file onto the boot folder of the SD card. When the Raspberry Pi boots for the first time, it will copy that file into the correct location in the Linux root file system and use those settings to start up wireless networking. Depending on the OS and editor you are creating this on, the file could have incorrect newlines or the wrong file extension so make sure you use an editor that accounts for this.
Linux expects the line feed LF newline character. Here is a more elaborate example that should work for most typical wpa2 personal networks. This template below works for 2. The utilization of quotes around the ssid - psk can help avoid any oddities if your network ssid or password has special chars! A Raspberry Pi within an Ethernet network can be used as a wireless access point, creating a secondary network. The resulting new wireless network is entirely managed by the Raspberry Pi.
If you wish to extend an existing Ethernet network to wireless clients, consider instead setting up a bridged access point. A routed wireless access point can be created using the inbuilt wireless features of the Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 3 or Raspberry Pi Zero W, or by using a suitable USB wireless dongle that supports access point mode.
It is possible that some USB dongles may need slight changes to their settings. If you are having trouble with a USB wireless dongle, please check the forums.
Ensure you have administrative access to your Raspberry Pi. The network setup will be modified as part of the installation: local access, with screen and keyboard connected to your Raspberry Pi, is recommended. In this document, we assume IP network Please select another IP network for wireless, e. In order to work as an access point, the Raspberry Pi needs to have the hostapd access point software package installed:.
Finally, install netfilter-persistent and its plugin iptables-persistent. This utilty helps by saving firewall rules and restoring them when the Raspberry Pi boots:.
The Raspberry Pi will run and manage a standalone wireless network. It will also route between the wireless and Ethernet networks, providing internet access to wireless clients.
If you prefer, you can choose to skip the routing by skipping the section "Enable routing and IP masquerading" below, and run the wireless network in complete isolation. The Raspberry Pi also acts as the router on the wireless network, and as is customary, we will give it the first IP address in the network: This section configures the Raspberry Pi to let wireless clients access computers on the main Ethernet network, and from there the internet.
To enable routing, i. Enabling routing will allow hosts from network In order to allow traffic between clients on this foreign wireless network and the internet without changing the configuration of the main router, the Raspberry Pi can substitute the IP address of wireless clients with its own IP address on the LAN using a "masquerade" firewall rule.
The main router will see all outgoing traffic from wireless clients as coming from the Raspberry Pi, allowing communication with the internet. The Raspberry Pi will receive all incoming traffic, substitute the IP addresses back, and forward traffic to the original wireless client. Now save the current firewall rules for IPv4 including the rule above and IPv6 to be loaded at boot by the netfilter-persistent service:.
If in the future you change the configuration of your firewall, make sure to save the configuration before rebooting. The default configuration file serves as a template for all possible configuration options, whereas we only need a few. It is easier to start from an empty file.
The Raspberry Pi will deliver IP addresses between You should be able to reach the Raspberry Pi under the name gw. Countries around the world regulate the use of telecommunication radio frequency bands to ensure interference-free operation. The Linux OS helps users comply with these rules by allowing applications to be configured with a two-letter "WiFi country code", e.
US for a computer used in the United States. In the Raspberry Pi OS, 5 GHz wireless networking is disabled until a WiFi country code has been configured by the user, usually as part of the initial installation process see wireless configuration pages in this section for details.
This setting will be automatically restored at boot time. We will define an appropriate country code in the access point software configuration, next. Add the information below to the configuration file. This configuration assumes we are using channel 7, with a network name of NameOfNetwork , and a password AardvarkBadgerHedgehog.
Note that the name and password should not have quotes around them. The passphrase should be between 8 and 64 characters in length. Adapt this line and specify the two-letter ISO code of your country. See Wikipedia for a list of two-letter ISO country codes. Now restart your Raspberry Pi and verify that the wireless access point becomes automatically available. Once your Raspberry Pi has restarted, search for wireless networks with your wireless client.
If SSH is enabled on the Raspberry Pi, it should be possible to connect to it from your wireless client as follows, assuming the pi account is present: ssh pi If your wireless client has access to your Raspberry Pi and the internet, if you set up routing , congratulations on setting up your new access point!
If you encounter difficulties, contact the forums for assistance. Please refer to this page in your message. The Raspberry Pi can be used as a bridged wireless access point within an existing Ethernet network.
This will extend the network to wireless computers and devices. If you wish to create a standalone wireless network, consider instead setting up a routed access point. A bridged wireless access point can be created using the inbuilt wireless features of the Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 3 or Raspberry Pi Zero W, or by using a suitable USB wireless dongle that supports access point mode. The network setup will be entirely reset as part of the installation: local access, with screen and keyboard connected to your Raspberry Pi, is recommended.
You should also be ready to add screen and keyboard if needed in case you lose contact with your Raspberry Pi after installation. In order to work as a bridged access point, the Raspberry Pi needs to have the hostapd access point software package installed:. A bridge network device running on the Raspberry Pi will connect the Ethernet and wireless networks using its built-in interfaces. Add a bridge network device named br0 by creating a file using the following command, with the contents below:.
In order to bridge the Ethernet network with the wireless network, first add the built-in Ethernet interface eth0 as a bridge member by creating the following file:. Now enable the systemd-networkd service to create and populate the bridge when your Raspberry Pi boots:. Network interfaces that are members of a bridge device are never assigned an IP address, since they communicate via the bridge. The bridge device itself needs an IP address, so that you can reach your Raspberry Pi on the network.
So we need to block the eth0 and wlan0 interfaces from being processed, and let dhcpcd configure only br0 via DHCP. Add the following line near the beginning of the file above the first interface xxx line, if any :. With this line, interface br0 will be configured in accordance with the defaults via DHCP. Save the file to complete the IP configuration of the machine. If your wireless client has access to the local network and the internet, congratulations on setting up your new access point!
If you want your Raspberry Pi to access the Internet via a proxy server perhaps from a school or other workplace , you will need to configure your Pi to use the server before you can get online. Replace proxyipaddress and proxyport with the IP address and port of your proxy. In order for operations that run as sudo e. Add the following line to the file so sudo will use the environment variables you just created:. Reboot your Raspberry Pi for the changes to take effect. You should now be able to access the internet via your proxy server.
In the vast majority of cases, simply plugging your HDMI-equipped monitor into the Raspberry Pi using a standard HDMI cable will automatically lead to the Pi using the best resolution the monitor supports. The Raspberry Pi 4 can drive up to two displays, with a resolution up to p at a 60Hz refresh rate.
At 4K resolution, if you connect two displays then you are limited to a 30Hz refresh rate. This flag can also be set using the 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' tool within the desktop environment. If you are running the 3D graphics driver also known as the FKMS driver , then in the Preferences menu you will find a graphical application for setting up standard displays, including multi-display setups.
The Screen Configuration tool arandr is a graphical tool for selecting display modes and setting up multiple displays.
You can find this tool in the desktop Preferences menu, but only if the 3D graphics driver is being used, as it is this driver that provides the required mode setting functionality. Use the Configure menu option to select the screen, resolution, and orientation.
When you have the required setup, click the Tick button to apply the settings. If you are using legacy graphics drivers, or find yourself in circumstances where the Raspberry Pi may not be able to determine the best mode, or you may specifically wish to set a non-default resolution, the rest of this page may be useful.
Each group advertises a particular set of modes, where a mode describes the resolution, frame rate, clock rate, and aspect ratio of the output. You can use the tvservice application on the command line to determine which modes are supported by your device, along with other useful data:. If you are using a Pi 4 with more than one display attached, then tvservice needs to be told which device to ask for information. You can get display IDs for all attached devices by using:.
You can find tables of modes on the config. In certain rare cases it may be necessary to define the exact clock requirements of the HDMI signal. These timings are usually found in the datasheet of the display being used. If no port identifier is specified, the settings are applied to port 0. In some rare cases you may need to increase the HDMI drive strength, for example when there is speckling on the display or when you are using very long cables. There is a config. The options to rotate the display of your Raspberry Pi depend on which display driver software it is running, which may also depend on which Raspberry Pi you are using.
If you are running the Raspberry Pi desktop then rotation is achieved by using the Screen Configuration Utility from the desktop Preferences menu. This will bring up a graphical representation of the display or displays connected to the Raspberry Pi.
Right click on the display you wish to rotate and select the required option. It is also possible to change these settings using the command line xrandr option.
Note that the --output entry specifies to which device the rotation applies. You can determine the device name by simply typing xrandr on the command line which will display information, including the name, for all attached devices. You can also use the command line to mirror the display using the --reflect option.
Reflection can be one of 'normal' 'x', 'y' or 'xy'. This causes the output contents to be reflected across the specified axes. If you are using the console only no graphical desktop then you will need to set the appropriate kernel command line flags. Change the console settings as described on the this page.
These options rotate both the desktop and console. Each option takes one of the following parameters :. You can combine the rotation settings with the flips by adding them together.
You can also have both horizontal and vertical flips in the same way. You can switch between these modes at any time. If your HDMI monitor or TV has built-in speakers, the audio can be played over the HDMI cable, but you can switch it to a set of headphones or other speakers plugged into the headphone jack. If your display claims to have speakers, sound is output via HDMI by default; if not, it is output via the headphone jack. This may not be the desired output setup, or the auto-detection is inaccurate, in which case you can manually switch the output.
There are two ways of setting the audio output; using the Desktop volume control, or using raspi-config command line tool. Right-clicking the volume icon on the desktop taskbar brings up the audio output selector; this allows you to select between the internal audio outputs. It also allows you to select any external audio devices, such as USB sound cards and Bluetooth audio devices.
The volume control and mute operate on the currently selected device. Open up raspi-config by entering the following into the command line:.
Select System Options Currently option 1, but yours may be different and press Enter. Now select the Option named, Audio Currently option S2, but yours may be different and press Enter :.
Select your required mode, press Enter and press the right arrow key to exit the options list, then select Finish to exit the configuration tool. After you have finished modifying your audio settings, you need to restart your Raspberry Pi in order for your changes to take effect.
In some rare cases, it is necessary to edit config. To set up your storage device so that it always mounts to a specific location of your choice, you must mount it manually. You can mount your storage device at a specific folder location. Note that the folder must be empty. Your storage device will show up in this list, along with any other connected storage. For example, sda1. If your storage device uses an NTFS file system, you will have read-only access to it.
If you want to write to the device, you can install the ntfs-3g driver:. Create a target folder to be the mount point of the storage device. The mount point name used in this case is mydisk. You can specify a name of your choice:. You can modify the fstab file to define the location where the storage device will be automatically mounted when the Raspberry Pi starts up.
In the fstab file, the disk partition is identified by the universally unique identifier UUID. Replace fstype with the type of your file system, which you found in step 2 of 'Mounting a storage device' above, for example: ntfs.
Now that you have set an entry in fstab , you can start up your Raspberry Pi with or without the storage device attached. Before you unplug the device you must either shut down the Pi, or manually unmount it using the steps in 'Unmounting a storage device' below. For more information on each Linux command, refer to the specific manual page using the man command. For example, man fstab.
When the Raspberry Pi shuts down, the system takes care of unmounting the storage device so that it is safe to unplug it. If you want to manually unmount a device, you can use the following command:.
If you receive an error that the 'target is busy', this means that the storage device was not unmounted. If no error was displayed, you can now safely unplug the device. The 'target is busy' message means there are files on the storage device that are in use by a program. To close the files, use the following procedure. If you have a terminal open, make sure that you are not in the folder where the storage device is mounted, or in a sub-folder of it.
If you are still unable to unmount the storage device, you can use the lsof tool to check which program has files open on the device. You need to first install lsof using apt :.
If you want to select a different keyboard use raspi-config. Once again, this is something you can change using the raspi-config tool. As of July , the Raspberry Pi firmware supports custom default pin configurations through a user-provided Device Tree blob file.
To find out whether your firmware is recent enough, please run vcgencmd version. Setting by the GPIO command in config. On a soft reset, the same procedure applies, except for default pulls, which are only applied on a power-on reset.
Note that it may take a few seconds to get from stage 1 to stage 4. During that time, the GPIO pins may not be in the state expected by attached peripherals as defined in dtblob. Since different GPIO pins have different default pulls, you should do one of the following for your peripheral:. In order to compile a Device Tree source. The dtc command can then be used as follows:. Similarly, a. The dt-blob. It is not currently used by the Linux kernel, but a kernel section will be added at a later stage, when we reconfigure the Raspberry Pi kernel to use a dt-blob for configuration.
The dt-blob can configure all versions of the Raspberry Pi, including the Compute Module, to use the alternative settings. The following sections are valid in the dt-blob:. This section contains all of the VideoCore blob information. All subsequent sections must be enclosed within this section. There are some differences because of the moved I2C pins.
Each item in this section must be a named pin section, such as pin p32 , meaning GPIO Please note that you can only specify a single drive strength for the bank. This section is used to set specific VideoCore functionality to particular pins.
This enables the user to move the camera power enable pin to somewhere different, or move the HDMI hotplug position: things that Linux does not control. Please refer to the example DTS file below. It is possible to change the configuration of the clocks through this interface, although it can be difficult to predict the results!
The configuration of the clocking system is very complex. Each of the clock destinations can be configured to come from one of the clock channels, although there is a restricted mapping of source to destination, so not all channels can be routed to all clock destinations. Here are a couple of example configurations that you can use to alter specific clocks.
We will add to this resource when requests for clock configurations are made. This is used to give an audio codec the Hz it needs to produce the range of frequencies. This is the master Raspberry Pi blob, from which others are usually derived.
These Device Trees may include DT parameters that provide a degree of control over some onboard features. DT overlays allow optional external hardware to be described and configured, and they also support parameters for more control.
The firmware loader start. It chooses which one to load based on the board revision number, and makes certain modifications to further tailor it memory size, Ethernet addresses etc. This runtime customisation avoids the need for lots of DTBs with only minor differences. The loader examines the result to learn for example which UART, if any, is to be used for the console. Finally it launches the kernel, passing a pointer to the merged DTB.
A Device Tree DT is a description of the hardware in a system. It should include the name of the base CPU, its memory configuration, and any peripherals internal and external. A DT should not be used to describe the software, although by listing the hardware modules it does usually cause driver modules to be loaded. A Device Tree represents the hardware configuration as a hierarchy of nodes.
Each node may contain properties and subnodes. Properties are named arrays of bytes, which may contain strings, numbers big-endian , arbitrary sequences of bytes, and any combination thereof. By analogy to a filesystem, nodes are directories and properties are files. DTS syntax is C-like, with braces for grouping and semicolons at the end of each line. Note that DTS requires semicolons after closing braces: think of C struct s rather than functions. Properties are simple key-value pairs where the value can either be empty or contain an arbitrary byte stream.
While data types are not encoded in the data structure, there are a few fundamental data representations that can be expressed in a Device Tree source file.
Given that nodes are named, potentially with absolute paths, it is possible for the same node to appear twice in a DTS file and its inclusions. When this happens, the nodes and properties are combined, interleaving and overwriting properties as required later values override earlier ones.
It is thus possible for one. It is often necessary for one part of the tree to refer to another, and there are four ways to do this:.
A phandle is a unique bit integer assigned to a node in its phandle property. For historical reasons, you may also see a redundant, matching linux,phandle. They are usually allocated by the DT compiler when it encounters a reference to a node in an integer context, usually in the form of a label see below.
References to nodes using phandles are simply encoded as the corresponding integer cell values; there is no markup to indicate that they should be interpreted as phandles, as that is application-defined. Just as a label in C gives a name to a place in the code, a DT label assigns a name to a node in the hierarchy. Note that labels contain no structure; they are just tokens in a flat, global namespace. Aliases are similar to labels, except that they do appear in the FDT output as a form of index.
How to construct a Device Tree, and how best to use it to capture the configuration of some hardware, is a large and complex subject. There are many resources available, some of which are listed below, but several points deserve mentioning in this document:.
When an OS encounters a node with a compatible property, it looks it up in its database of device drivers to find the best match. In Linux, this usually results in the driver module being automatically loaded, provided it has been appropriately labelled and not blacklisted. The status property indicates whether a device is enabled or disabled. If the status is ok , okay or absent, then the device is enabled.
Otherwise, status should be disabled , so that the device is disabled. It can be useful to place devices in a.
A derived configuration can then include that. Taking that one step further and placing the SoC on a board with other components only makes matters worse.
To keep that manageable, particularly if there are related devices that share components, it makes sense to put the common elements in. When a system like Raspberry Pi also supports optional plug-in accessories such as HATs, the problem grows.
Ultimately, each possible configuration requires a Device Tree to describe it, but once you factor in all the different base models and the large number of available accessories, the number of combinations starts to multiply rapidly. What is needed is a way to describe these optional components using a partial Device Tree, and then to be able to build a complete tree by taking a base DT and adding a number of optional elements.
You can do this, and these optional elements are called "overlays". A DT overlay comprises a number of fragments, each of which targets one node and its subnodes. Although the concept sounds simple enough, the syntax seems rather strange at first:.
The compatible string identifies this as being for BCM, which is the base architecture for the Raspberry Pi SoCs; if the overlay makes use of features of a Pi 4 then brcm,bcm is the correct value to use, otherwise brcm,bcm can be used for all Pi overlays.
Then comes the first and in this case only fragment. Fragments should be numbered sequentially from zero. Failure to adhere to this may cause some or all of your fragments to be missed.
The example above can be interpreted as if it were written like this:. The effect of merging that overlay with a standard Raspberry Pi base Device Tree e. But if you try to compile this overlay using:. Trying again, this time using the original example and adding the - option to allow unresolved references and -Hepapr to remove some clutter :.
Run sudo apt install device-tree-compiler and try again - this time, compilation should complete successfully. After the verbose description of the file structure there is our fragment.
The compiler has also added a phandle property containing a unique to this overlay small integer to indicate that the node has a label, and replaced all references to the label with the same small integer. This node is the key to how unresolved symbols are dealt with.
In this case, the path is to the 0xffffffff value of target , but fragments can contain other unresolved references which would require additional fixes. This is required because the program performing the merge will have to ensure that phandle numbers are sequential and unique. Back in section 1. This was useful at one time because providing sufficient aliases allowed very old versions of dtc to be used to build the base DTB files, but fortunately that is ancient history now.
To avoid the need for lots of Device Tree overlays, and to reduce the need for users of peripherals to modify DTS files, the Raspberry Pi loader supports a new feature - Device Tree parameters. This permits small changes to the DT using named parameters, similar to the way kernel modules receive parameters from modprobe and the kernel command line.
It contains properties whose names are the chosen parameter names, and whose values are a sequence comprising a phandle reference to a label for the target node, and a string indicating the target property; string, integer cell and boolean properties are supported.
String parameters can cause their target properties to grow, shrink, or be created. In a change from earlier implementations, integer parameters may refer to non-existent properties or to offsets beyond the end of an existing property. Device Tree encodes boolean values as zero-length properties; if present then the property is true, otherwise it is false.
They are defined like this:. Note that a property is assigned the value false by not defining it. Boolean parameters are declared like this:. Inverted booleans invert the input value before applying it in the same was as a regular boolean; they are declared similarly, but use! Byte string properties are arbitrary sequences of bytes, e. MAC addresses. They accept strings of hexadecimal bytes, with or without colons between the bytes. There are some situations where it is convenient to be able to set the same value in multiple locations within the Device Tree.
Rather than the ungainly approach of creating multiple parameters, it is possible to add multiple targets to a single parameter by concatenating them, like this:. As seen in 2.
The addition of embedded literal assignments allows a parameter to write arbitrary values, regardless of the parameter value supplied by the user. Lines 1, 2 and 4 are fairly obvious, but line 3 is more interesting because the value appears as an integer cell value. The DT compiler evaluates integer expressions at compile time, which might be convenient particularly if macro values are used , but the cell can also contain a reference to a label:.
When the overlay is applied, the label will be resolved against the base DTB in the usual way. Note that it is a good idea to split multi-part parameters over multiple lines like this to make them easier to read - something that becomes more necessary with the addition of cell value assignments like this.
Bear in mind that parameters do nothing unless they are applied - a default value in a lookup table is ignored unless the parameter name is used without assigning a value. Lookup tables allow parameter input values to be transformed before they are used. The DT parameter mechanism as described has a number of limitations, including no easy way to create arrays of integers and the inability to create new nodes.
One way to overcome some of these limitations is to conditionally include or exclude certain fragments. The parameter declaration syntax has been extended to allow the otherwise illegal zero target phandle to indicate that the following string contains operations at fragment or overlay scope. So far, four operations have been implemented:. A few property names, when targeted by a parameter, get special handling. One you may have noticed already - status - which will convert a boolean to either okay for true and disabled for false.
Assigning to the bootargs property appends to it rather than overwriting it - this is how settings can be added to the kernel command line. The reg property is used to specify device addresses - the location of a memory-mapped hardware block, the address on an I2C bus, etc. The names of child nodes should be qualified with their addresses in hexadecimal, using as a separator:.
When assigning to the reg property, the address portion of the parent node name will be replaced with the assigned value. This can be used to prevent a node name clash when using the same overlay multiple times - a technique used by the i2c-gpio overlay. Like the reg property, this can be used to give nodes unique names. The introduction of the Pi 4, built around the BCM SoC, brought with it many changes; some of these changes are additional interfaces, and some are modifications to or removals of existing interfaces.
There is therefore a need for a method of tailoring an overlay to multiple platforms with differing hardware. Supporting them all in a single. A simpler solution is to add a facility to map an overlay name to one of several implementation files depending on the current platform.
The overlay map, which is rolling out with the switch to Linux 5. This is an edited version of the current map file see the full version :. Each node has the name of an overlay that requires special handling. The properties of each node are either platform names or one of a small number of special directives. A platform name with no value an empty property indicates that the current overlay is compatible with the platform; for example, vc4-kms-v3d is compatible with the bcm platform.
A non-empty value for a platform is the name of an alternative overlay to use in place of the requested one; asking for vc4-kms-v3d on BCM results in vc4-kms-v3d-pi4 being loaded instead.
The second example node - vc4-kms-v3d-pi4 - could be inferred from the content of vc4-kms-v3d , but that intelligence goes into the construction of the file, not its interpretation.
In the event that a platform is not listed for an overlay, one of the special directives may apply:. The renamed directive indicates the new name of the overlay which should be largely compatible with the original , but also logs a warning about the rename.
The deprecated directive contains a brief explanatory error message which will be logged after the common prefix overlay ' Remember: only exceptions need to be listed - the absence of a node for an overlay means that the default file should be used for all platforms.
The dtoverlay and dtmerge utilities have been extended to support the map file:. For further examples, there is a large collection of overlay source files hosted in the Raspberry Pi Linux GitHub repository.
The overlay handling in the firmware and the run-time overlay application using the dtoverlay utility treat labels defined in an overlay as being private to that overlay. This avoids the need to invent globally unique names for labels which keeps them short , and it allows the same overlay to be used multiple times without clashing provided some tricks are used - see Special properties. Sometimes, however, it is very useful to be able to create a label with one overlay and use it from another.
When this overlay is applied, the loader strips out all symbols except those that have been exported, in this case public , and rewrites the path to make it relative to the target of the fragment containing the label.
In older firmware, fragments are applied strictly in order, top to bottom. With firmware released since 14th February , fragments are applied in two passes:. On a Raspberry Pi it is the job of the loader one of the start.
The base Device Trees are located alongside start. This selection is automatic, and allows the same SD card image to be used in a variety of devices. This configuration will cause bcmrpi-b. If these files are copied with the kernel, then the loader will attempt to load one of those DTBs by default.
In order to manage Device Tree and overlays, the loader supports a number of config. It will then search for parameters foo and level , and assign the indicated values to them. The loader will also search for an attached HAT with a programmed EEPROM, and load the supporting overlay from there - either directly or by name from the "overlays" directory; this happens without any user intervention.
With a Device Tree, the kernel will automatically search for and load modules that support the indicated enabled devices. Note, however, that layered modules such as i2c-dev still need to be loaded explicitly. In use, parameters look like this:. If you have an overlay that defines some parameters, they can be specified either on subsequent lines like this:. Overlay parameters are only in scope until the next overlay is loaded.
To expose the parameter exported by the base DTB instead, end the current overlay scope using:. Raspberry Pi boards have two I2C interfaces.
However, there are two early revisions of the Model B that have those roles reversed. To make it possible to use one set of overlays and parameters with all Pis, the firmware creates some board-specific DT parameters. These are:. For people writing overlays, the same aliasing has been applied to the labels on the I2C DT nodes. Thus, you should write:. The EEPROM includes any DT overlay required to enable the board or the name of an overlay to load from the filing system , and this overlay can also expose parameters.
As of Linux 4. Compatible kernels manage a stack of overlays that are applied on top of the base DTB. The use of the word "stack" above is important - overlays can only be added and removed at the top of the stack; changing something further down the stack requires that anything on top of it must first be removed. Matthew Matthew 3 3 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.
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