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I am using buildroot to create a custom os for my raspberry pi. I would like to use the vcgencmd command, but I am unable to find the package that includes these tools. I have tried searching the internet and found that it could be part of VideoCore (which I also cannot find), raspberrypi-firmware (also not present).
So my question is: how to I include the vcgencmd tools in a custom build? What is the package name?
vcgencmd is included in libraspberrypi-bin.
All the Pi specific packages are in the Foundation's repository.
If you're running Raspbian you can find the apt source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list
Current contents (for Raspbian Stretch) is
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ stretch main ui
The current version of buildroot provides this under a slightly different name. Under xconfig or menuconfig...
Target packages -> Hardware handling -> Firmware -> rpi-firmware
Looking inside the corresponding tarball, there is indeed a vcgencmd binary in there.
