Overlays do not apply even when selected in armbian-config and then rebooting

[Jorropo]

armbianmonitor -u

https://paste.next.armbian.com/hoyonuruye

 

I installed the newest fresh debian minimal image for the RockPi-S and no matter what I do overlays do not apply.

I've followed

and compiled spi1 and spi2 rk3308. I've also tested the external antenna device tree as I have installed an external antenna:

 

However neither the external antenna is being used nor spidev are present.
I have diffed

dtc -I fs -O dts /proc/device-tree

and they are identical before and after enabling the overlays in armbian-config and rebooting.

 

I was able to confirm the "overlays" work by manually copypasting their changes in linux's source dts and generating a patch file, placing it in armbian's linux patch folder and recompiling from scratch, so if I do change the options spidev works, just I somehow can only do this by editing the source.

 

Here is the `/boot/armbianEnv.txt` file generated:

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=serial
overlay_prefix=rk3308
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3308-rock-pi-s.dtb
extraargs=cma=16M
rootdev=UUID=036c1484-611d-470e-b2ef-775fe550149b
rootfstype=ext4
fdt_overlays=rk3308-s0-ext-antenna rk3308-spi1-spidev rk3308-spi2-spidev
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

Also after editing the overlays in armbian-config this error pops up:

/boot/armbianEnv.txt: line 9: rk3308-spi1-spidev: command not found

 

[Werner]

9 hours ago, Jorropo said:

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=serial
overlay_prefix=rk3308
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3308-rock-pi-s.dtb
extraargs=cma=16M
rootdev=UUID=036c1484-611d-470e-b2ef-775fe550149b
rootfstype=ext4
fdt_overlays=rk3308-s0-ext-antenna rk3308-spi1-spidev rk3308-spi2-spidev
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

 

Try this:

 

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=serial
overlay_prefix=rk3308
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3308-rock-pi-s.dtb
extraargs=cma=16M
rootdev=UUID=036c1484-611d-470e-b2ef-775fe550149b
rootfstype=ext4
overlays=s0-ext-antenna spi1-spidev spi2-spidev
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

 

For once the prefix is already set and for the other IIRC it is just overlays instead of fdt_overlays. But not sure.

Overall there might be a bug in config-ng with overlays. Just need to verify that manual applying works.

[brentr]

Applying the overlays manually works.

I use the s0-ext-antenna and b@1.3ghz overlays frequently.

I've never done it any other way.

 

[Jorropo]

44 minutes ago, Werner said:

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=serial
overlay_prefix=rk3308
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3308-rock-pi-s.dtb
extraargs=cma=16M
rootdev=UUID=036c1484-611d-470e-b2ef-775fe550149b
rootfstype=ext4
overlays=s0-ext-antenna spi1-spidev spi2-spidev
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

This does not work either.

[Jorropo]

25 minutes ago, brentr said:

Applying the overlays manually works.

I use the s0-ext-antenna and b@1.3ghz overlays frequently.

I've never done it any other way.

Have you tried it with debian minimal image or the noble CLI ?

[Meestor_X]

I too am not seeing any overlays added in armbianEnv.txt whether I add them on the overlays= line or user_overlays= line.
ls /proc/device-tree is the same whether items are added or not.

Running 24.8.3 (bookworm). Can anyone confirm that overlays aren't working in case it's something I'm doing wrong?

[eselarm]

For my ROCK3A (rockchip RK3568) using Armbian 24.11.x I enable SATA (beta 6.1.84 kernel). I need the file: /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/rock-3a-sata.dtbo, that exists.

 

I see in armbianEnv overlay_prefix=rk35xx, but from boot.cmd there is now an extra option without applying overlay_prefix, which is needed in my case I see. I compared with and older NanoPi-NEO (allwinner sun8i/H3), how i did it there.

 

So my statement added in armbianEnv.txt is:

 

overlays=rock-3a-sata

 

and that works.

 

 

Note that I added it with a text editor to armbianEnv.txt myself, as I needed to change paths related to booting unusual things that armbian-config doesn't know.

Edited 4 hours ago by eselarm

[Igor]

3 hours ago, eselarm said:

I see in armbianEnv overlay_prefix=rk35xx,

This was a bug in armbian-config ... fixed with https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/299