svn commit: r328257 - in head/sys: arm/broadcom/bcm2835 dts/arm modules

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20180130025048.GA76676 at bluezbox.com>, Oleksandr Tymoshenko writes:

>> You seem to have skipped the bit about "without reboot" ?
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>No I haven't. config.txt is parsed by VC firmware on boot time
>and pwm.dtbo is applied even before boot loader kicks in. When
>kernel starts pwm node has pinctl information ready and status
>property is set to "okay". So if you download next available image,
>flash and boot it and run kldload bcm2835_pwm it will give you
>working PWM device out of the box without reboot.

But only if you add pwm.dtbo to config.txt and reboot, because
I see nothing indicating that we will put it there in the
release images we (may start to) produce ?

>I don't think we have designated reference platform at the moment,
>but it's a good idea to have one. Pi's platform is too weird to
>be reference. TI's AM335x or iMX would be a good candidate I think
>They are complex enough to illustrate all the concepts yet not super
>complex.

I fully agree that RPi should *not* be our reference platform.

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