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orangepi5-ultra: enable Bluetooth on edge kernel via hci_bcm #9697

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orangepi5-ultra: enable Bluetooth on edge kernel via hci_bcm
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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions config/boards/orangepi5-ultra.csc
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Expand Up @@ -44,7 +44,23 @@ function post_family_tweaks_bsp__orangepi5ultra_bluetooth() {
}

function post_family_tweaks__orangepi5ultra_enable_bluetooth_service() {
# On the edge kernel, the mainline hci_bcm SerDev driver handles BT natively
# via the DT bluetooth node. The user-space patchram service would conflict
# with SerDev (both try to claim /dev/ttyS7), so we skip enabling it.
[[ "$BRANCH" == "edge" ]] && return 0

display_alert "$BOARD" "Enabling ap6611s-bluetooth.service" "info"
chroot_sdcard systemctl enable ap6611s-bluetooth.service
return 0
}

# On the edge kernel, hci_bcm constructs the firmware filename from the board
# compatible string (BCM.<board>.hcd), not from the chip name. Create a symlink
# so the driver finds the SYN43711A0 patchram firmware.
function post_family_tweaks__orangepi5ultra_bt_firmware_symlink() {
[[ "$BRANCH" != "edge" ]] && return 0
display_alert "$BOARD" "Creating BT firmware symlink for edge kernel" "info"
mkdir -p "$SDCARD/lib/firmware/brcm"
ln -sf SYN43711A0.hcd "$SDCARD/lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.xunlong,orangepi-5-ultra.hcd"
return 0
}