notro/rpi-firmware

Deprecated
The offical Raspberry Pi kernel has SPI DMA support now, so rpi-firmware is deprecated.

Raspberry Pi kernel 4.0.7+ with SPI DMA support.

Install

sudo REPO_URI=https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware rpi-update

Changelog

2015-07-11

• Update to 4.0.7 @ 13f82f4

2015-03-27

• FBTFT support is now in raspberrypi/linux. This release only adds SPI DMA support on top of that.
• pitft overlay changed name to pitft28-resistive
• These modules are no longer present:
  • gpio_keys_device - DT overlay example
  • ads7846_device - Use ads7846 DT overlay instead. See /boot/overlays/README
  • gpio_mouse_device
  • stmpe_device
  • gpio_backlight_device
  • rpi_power_switch
  • spi-config
• Builtin console fonts are not enabled (fbcon=font:XX).
  • sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
• Other kconfig options no longer enabled:
  • MOUSE_GPIO
  • GPIO_MCP23S08
  • DYNAMIC_DEBUG

2015-02-07

• Pi 2 support

2014-12-07

• fbtft_device: added support for waveshare32b
• fbtft_device: add Tontec 3.5 support
• fb_ili9481,6: regwidth was incorrect
• fbtft: make it possible to override regwidth

Sources

• raspberrypi/firmware
• raspberrypi/linux
• notro/spi-bcm2708

Patches

• /home/pi/rpi-firmware/fbtft/patches/bcm2708-spi-dts.patch
• /home/pi/rpi-firmware/fbtft/patches/0001-staging-fbtft-Add-reset-to-fbtft_init_display_dt.patch

Kernel config

Default config: bcmrpi_defconfig

Built with rpi-build