Hi Pablo,
Found the cause for the Help problem.
On CentOS, /boot/overlays/README is missing. It contains the help for all the dtoverlay commands...

I got the file from its original distro, and I put it under /boot/overlays/README.rasp for the demo:
  [pi@myrpi ~]$ dtoverlay -h i2c-gpio
  * Help file not found
  [pi@myrpi ~]$ sudo mv /boot/overlays/README.rasp /boot/overlays/README
  [pi@myrpi ~]$ dtoverlay -h i2c-gpio 
  Name:   i2c-gpio
 
  Info:   Adds support for software i2c controller on gpio pins
 
  Usage:  dtoverlay=i2c-gpio,<param>=<val>
 
  Params: i2c_gpio_sda            GPIO used for I2C data (default "23")
 
          i2c_gpio_scl            GPIO used for I2C clock (default "24")
 
          i2c_gpio_delay_us       Clock delay in microseconds
                                 (default "2" = ~100kHz)
 
  [pi@myrpi ~]$

Unfortunatelly, the files under this folder seem to belong to no package...
  [pi@myrpi ~]$ rpm -qf /boot/overlays/i2c-gpio.dtbo
  file /boot/overlays/i2c-gpio.dtbo is not owned by any package
  [pi@myrpi ~]$

So, I'm stuck there, for now ...


Le lun. 24 sept. 2018 à 14:12, Stephan Guilloux <stephan.guilloux@crisalid.com> a écrit :


Le 24/09/2018 à 10:46, Pablo Sebastian Greco a écrit :


El 24 sept 2018, a las 04:41, Stephan Guilloux <stephan.guilloux@crisalid.com> escribió:

    Hello Pablo,

Sorry for the direct mail.
No problem. I'm on vacation this week so it is probably better
Enjoy ;-)


I'll have a look, this week, but I need the sources that CentOS delivers.
I
Tried to check on vault.centos.org, but no armhfp (only aarch64).
You're right. I had touble finding it myself. It got lost when moving from the old to the new build system.
Try here https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c7-extras-1/raspberrypi-vc/20170705-502.gitaa39775.el7.centos/
I'll update the srpm and probably github when I'm back but if you find the problems, better.  Hehe
OK. Got it there.
Will inform you through the list, in case I find anything.



Can you indicate where to find the current raspberrypi-vc-utils.src.rpm ?

    Regards,

        Stéphan.
Thanks, Pablo


Le 20/09/2018 à 13:02, Pablo Sebastián Greco a écrit :

Stephan, sorry for the delay

El 10/9/18 a las 12:28, Stephan Guilloux escribió:
Hello,

Small issues, today, with dtoverlay gpio-shutdown/poweroff

    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay gpio-shutdown
    su: user pi does not exist
    * Failed to apply overlay '1_gpio-shutdown' (kernel)
    su: user pi does not exist
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay gpio-poweroff
    su: user pi does not exist
    su: user pi does not exist
    [root@mypi ~]#
That seems to come from here (https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland/blob/master/host_applications/linux/apps/dtoverlay/dtoverlay-pre). If you run as root, it tries to run as the user "pi", as a normal user(any), you shouldn't have that problem

Even if I add a fake user "PI", this does not work better.

    [root@mypi ~]# useradd -r pi -p pi
    [root@mypi ~]#
    [root@mypi ~]#
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay gpio-poweroff
    * Failed to apply overlay '2_gpio-poweroff' (kernel)
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay gpio-shutdown
    * Failed to apply overlay '2_gpio-shutdown' (kernel)
    [root@mypi ~]#
That bit seems to come from here (https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland/blob/2448644657e5fbfd82299416d218396ee1115ece/host_applications/linux/apps/dtoverlay/dtoverlay_main.c#L982), it fails to check if the overlay was actually applied

But when I check the overlay list, I get:

    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay -l
    Overlays (in load order):
    0:  gpio-shutdown
    1:  gpio-poweroff
    [root@mypi ~]#

At least, something is done :-)

That is a little stranger, why does it say it did something when the command before said it failed???
Last problems:
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay -h gpio-shutdown
    * Help file not found
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay -h gpio-poweroff
    * Help file not found
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay -h rpi-rtc
    * Help file not found
    [root@mypi ~]# dtoverlay -h rpi-display
    * Help file not found
    [root@mypi ~]#



I guess I'll have to add some debugging info and check in my rpi (as time permits)
In case ...
    [root@mypi ~]# cat /proc/version
    Linux version 4.14.65-v7.1.el7 (mockbuild@armhfp-03.bsys.centos.org) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28) (GCC)) #1 SMP Mon Aug 20 19:04:20 UTC 2018
    [root@mypi ~]#

    [root@mypi ~]# rpm -qa 'raspberrypi-vc*'
    raspberrypi-vc-demo-source-20170705-502.gitaa39775.el7.noarch
    raspberrypi-vc-libs-20170705-502.gitaa39775.el7.armv7hl
    raspberrypi-vc-utils-20170705-502.gitaa39775.el7.armv7hl
    [root@mypi ~]#

2 questions
1) has it ever worked before?
2) which rpi exactly are you using? (don't know if it is really relevant).

Thanks.
Pablo.


Stephan.

P.S.: Today we built 4.14.71 and will be released as soon as it passes the tests.