overlays missing in 6.14.0-edge-rockchip64 package

[eselarm]

I did upgrade my NanoPi-R6C and see that there are no overlays in the linux-image-6.14.0-edge-rockchip64 Debian package; they were there in 6.14.0-rc4-edge-rockchip64 

So there is no folder: /usr/lib/linux-image-6.14.0-edge-rockchip64/rockchip/overlay
 

Is this on purpose or some mistake?

[Werner]

dtb overlays are usually in /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay

[eselarm]

2 hours ago, Werner said:

dtb overlays are usually in /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay

Indeed they are copied or symlinked there from .deb package: linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64

But also that package does not include any overlays. I (re-)installed this linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64 package again now (trunk.313 instead of trunk.311 yesterday) and also that package lacks overlays. E.g. check with:

dpkg -L linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64 | grep "rockchip/overlay"

 

So even that there are 2 Armbian packages containing the same set of dtb+dtbo files, none of those 2 edge packages contains overlay files. So it seems something wrong in Armbian build, maybe only packaging, maybe even they are not build/compiled.

 

This is actually a test for my Rock3A (or new/extra RK35xx still not purchased) to see if I can work with mainline kernels instead of vendor (6.1.99). Note that for 'vendor' the overlays are there. 'current' I don't know, I do not use it at the moment.

[eselarm]

Ran a build, it packs overlays:

 

[🌱] Packaging linux-dtb [ rockchip64 linux-rockchip64-edge ]
[🔨]   [ 21M]  /local/s0/armbuild/rock-3a/build/.tmp/work-efccbebe-0297-4492-8451-549f4047d14e/kernel_dest_install_dir-w5E9G/dtbs
[🔨]   └── [ 21M]  rockchip
[🔨]       ├── [ 75K]  overlay
[🔨]       │   ├── [1.9K]  hinlink-h88k-240x135-lcd.dtbo
[🔨]       │   ├── [7.2K]  README.rockchip-overlays
[🔨]       │   ├── [ 459]  rk3308-b@1.3ghz.dtbo

etc.

 

/local/s0/armbuild/rock-3a/build/output/debs# dpkg --contents linux-image-edge-rockchip64_25.05.0-trunk_arm64__6.14.0-S38fe-D0000-P6158-C3a01H3d80-HK01ba-Vc222-B9bbb-R448a.deb | grep "rockchip/overlay" | grep README
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7355 2025-03-30 11:34 ./usr/lib/linux-image-6.14.0-edge-rockchip64/rockchip/overlay/README.rockchip-overlays

So my local build is fine; seems something wrong in the 'Armbian build cloud infrastucture', I don't know anything about that.

[Igor]

14 hours ago, eselarm said:

Is this on purpose or some mistake?

Its probably a "feature" of new kernel version that broke some mechanism.

 

21 minutes ago, eselarm said:

seems something wrong in the 'Armbian build cloud infrastucture'

 

Kernel 6.12.y is packed well so its something in the middle, corner case. I also don't know more then you. 

[Werner]

Just like kernel features and drivers such overlays need to be developed to be shipped. So it is very likely that some/most/all overlays for various features are missing. If you need them, vendor kernel is the way to go for now.