AML-S905X-CC Wiring Tool Overlays Description

Tutorials & Guides
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This is a list of device tree overlays provided by the Libre Computer Wiring Tool and what they do.

If this document is not up to date, please let us know.

There are a lot more functionality not exposed in which you have to write your own overlay. These serve as simple references for you to get started with. You can reference Raspberry Pi’s overlays here. Decompile them with the dtc command and switch the compatibles, targets, buses, GPIOs, and interrupt. Most hardware will work but certain hardware features like I2S will not have matching pin positions due to differences in pinmux.

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UART power /connection from /to another device
#2

so by activating spicc.dts the spi pin 19-21-23-24 on the 40 pin should work just like it does on rpi?

#3

Raspberry Pi SPI is usually the spicc-cs dtbo where /dev/spidev0.0 is enabled by pin 24 and /dev/spidev0.1 is enabled by pin 26. You can use the ./spidev-setup cs1

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#4

If using the new raspbian distro image, would you still need to run the wiring tool and activate the right SPI to have the same pin layout and usage as the pi?

#5

Yes, Raspberry Pi depend on the bootloader to read config.txt. Our bootloader does not read it at all. We are exploring creating a service to do it but that’s still in the conceptual stage at this point.

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#6

I have a PCF8523 RTC that I’ve previously used on Raspberry Pis. To use it on the aml-s905x-cc, should I be able to just change line 23 in i2c-ao-ds3231.dts to compatible = "nxp,pcf8523", build, install, and merge?

#7

Try it and let us know. Check that the driver is in kernel and make sure the compatible exists. We don’t have the hardware.

#8

Unfortunately, in the kernel you provide, you don’t include the module for this particular RTC. Would you consider adding it to the kernel config you are using? It’s part of the mainline device tree, so it should just require enabling it as a module (and looking at the kernel config in /boot, it lists it as an option-it’s line 7378 in the current 6.0.19 kernel).

#9

This is enabled on the latest kernel. Please update your kernel in 24 hours and it should have this module.

#10

That did it. The overlay worked with the update. I’ll clean up the header info and submit a PR to the Githup repository later this week.

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#11

In regards to the I2S pinout differences, is this also applicable to the ROC-RK3328-CC?

I’m attempting to connect a simple PCM5102 DAC board. On Raspberry it uses pins 12 (BCK), 35 (LRCK) and 40 (DATA).

#12

Are there limitations are which pins can have interrupts enabled on the Le Potato? I’ve tried adding the following to a .dts file (physical pin 37):

    tipi-reset-gpio = <&gpio 84 17>;
    interrupt-parent = <&gpio_intc>;
    interrupts = <94 2>;

I get the gpio description in a kernel module with gpiod_get and export it via gpiod_export + gpiod_export_link. Which all seems fine, except the exported sysfs artifacts do not have the ‘edge’ file which from the Linux docs indicates that the gpio doesn’t support interrupts…

#13

Following up on @Matthew_Splett’s question, what is the recommended way to enable interrupts on GPIO pins? I am not familiar at all with Device Tree Overlays, and I would not know how to start writing one.

#14

@technoryt, my repository is here: GitHub - jedimatt42/tipi_kernel_module: use modern linux kernel gpio access, if that helps. The wiring tool repository has Libre’s source for their device tree overlays. There are a few examples that include ‘interrupts’ but I’m not comprehending yet what is missing to get interrupt to work.

#15

I also would like to add support for this RTC and I saw your submission in the git repository. So, here’s a stupid question: what steps did you take “update the kernel?”

#16

You can use the meson-gic.h defines for the GPIOs.

Example of its use for Le Potato here.

For Renegade, you can just use this.