Subject: [bug#44543] [PATCH] gnu: raspberry-pi: Add helpers for config.txt file generation.

From: Stefan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:04:00 +0100

* gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm (raspi-config-file, raspi-custom-txt):
  New functions.
  (raspi-config-txt, raspi-bcm27-dtb-txt, raspi-bcm28-dtb-txt
  raspi-u-boot-bootloader-txt): New variables.
---
 gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm b/gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm
index cdea392fc7..b189ec2f4e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/raspberry-pi.scm
@@ -235,3 +235,65 @@ Raspberry Pi.  Note: It does not work on Raspberry Pi 1.")
                (install-file "arm64.bin" libexec)
                #t))))))))
     (supported-systems '("aarch64-linux"))))
+
+(define-public (raspi-config-file name content)
+  "Create a configuration file like config.txt for the Raspberry Pi firmware.
+CONTENT can be a list of strings, which are concatenated with a newline
+character.  Alternatively CONTENT can be a string with the full file content."
+  (plain-file
+   name
+   (if (list? content)
+       (string-join content "\n" 'suffix)
+       content)))
+
+(define-public (raspi-config-file name content)
+  "Create a configuration file like config.txt for the Raspberry Pi firmware.
+CONTENT can be a list of strings, which are concatenated with a newline
+character.  Alternatively CONTENT can be a string with the full file content."
+  (plain-file
+   name
+   (if (list? content)
+       (string-join content "\n" 'suffix)
+       content)))
+
+(define-public raspi-config-txt
+  ;; Create a config.txt to start the ARM cores up in 64-bit mode if necessary
+  ;; and to include a dtb.txt, bootloader.txt, and a custom.txt, each with
+  ;; separated configurations for the Raspberry Pi firmware.
+  (raspi-config-file
+   "config.txt"
+   `("# See https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/README.md for details."
+     ""
+     ,(string-append "arm_64bit=" (if (target-aarch64?) "1" "0"))
+     "include dtb.txt"
+     "include bootloader.txt"
+     "include custom.txt")))
+
+(define-public raspi-bcm27-dtb-txt
+  ;; Create a dtb.txt to be included by the config.txt to ensure that the
+  ;; downstream device tree files bcm27*.dtb will be used.
+  (raspi-config-file
+   "dtb.txt"
+   "upstream_kernel=0"))
+
+(define-public raspi-bcm28-dtb-txt
+  ;; Create a dtb.txt to be included by the config.txt to ensure that the
+  ;; upstream device tree files bcm28*.dtb will be used.
+  ;; This also implies the use of the dtoverlay=upstream.
+  (raspi-config-file
+   "dtb.txt"
+   "upstream_kernel=1"))
+
+(define-public raspi-u-boot-bootloader-txt
+  ;; Create a bootloader.txt file to be included by the config.txt to load the
+  ;; U-Boot bootloader.
+  (raspi-config-file
+   "bootloader.txt"
+   '("dtoverlay=upstream"
+     "kernel=u-boot.bin")))
+
+(define-public (raspi-custom-txt content)
+  "Create a custom.txt for the Raspberry Pi firmware.
+CONTENT can be a list of strings, which are concatenated with a newline
+character.  Alternatively CONTENT can be a string with the full file content."
+  (raspi-config-file "custom.txt" content))
-- 
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