utils

A collection of scripts and simple applications

• dtmerge - A tool for applying compiled DT overlays (*.dtbo) to base Device Tree files (*.dtb). Also includes the dtoverlay and dtparam utilities.
• eeptools - Tools for creating and managing EEPROMs for HAT+ and HAT board.
• kdtc - A tool for compiling overlays with #includes, etc., as used in the kernel tree.
• otpset - A short script to help with reading and setting the customer OTP bits.
• overlaycheck - A tool for validating the overlay files and README in a kernel source tree.
• ovmerge - A tool for merging DT overlay source files (*-overlay.dts), flattening and sorting .dts files for easy comparison, displaying the include tree, etc.
• pinctrl - A more powerful replacement for raspi-gpio, a tool for displaying and modifying the GPIO and pin muxing state of a system, bypassing the kernel.
• raspinfo - A short script to dump information about the Pi. Intended for the submission of bug reports.
• vclog - A tool to get VideoCore 'assert' or 'msg' logs with optional -f to wait for new logs to arrive.

Build Instructions

Install the prerequisites with "sudo apt install cmake device-tree-compiler libfdt-dev" - you need at least version 3.10 of cmake. Run the following commands to build and install everything, or see the README files in the subdirectories to just build utilities individually:

• cmake .
• make
• sudo make install