Raspberry Pi, upgrade fails

Yeah, I think its 12 years too late for that. Now every Pi user will be expecting that config.txt behavior and all the online guides they get also points them to use the same. So lets just do whats best for those users. It will help not getting posts flooded on forums saying I added this dtoverlay in my config.txt and its not working on my Pi.

Nothing wrong. I’m just saying I’d rather break with the RPi Foundation’s expectations, which serve no-one but themselves, and make RPi behave on Armbian more like other Armbian boards, and get completely rid of copying kernel/dt/overlays to FAT32 partition, be it with scripts or whatever. Copying u-boot to the FAT32 partition, ok, but not all the rest. Just my 2 cents – feel absolutely free to ignore me here.

We can also replace whole linux-dtb package by such scripts in /etc/kernel/post*.d directory. There is no need for linux-dtb package if you think about it.

And guess what does that? flash-kernel.

Why would we need flash kernel? Whats wrong with adding a script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/ ?

Well if letting the RPi firmware load DTB & overlays, that means we need to put the DTB & overlays & config.txt & who knows what else in the FAT32 partition, so it can load them. And guess what does that? flash-kernel.