Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:04:54 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r328257 - in head/sys: arm/broadcom/bcm2835 dts/arm modules Message-ID: <20180122190454.7d71e565259ca721d705ce38@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <88556.1516636361@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <201801220710.w0M7AUm9091853@repo.freebsd.org> <20180122135905.203e19ce94510854777dff63@bidouilliste.com> <88070.1516628327@critter.freebsd.dk> <20180122145117.08173be547f5dd6fef296732@bidouilliste.com> <88258.1516630050@critter.freebsd.dk> <20180122153003.664e1613bbf70ab49c5c1541@bidouilliste.com> <88556.1516636361@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:52:41 +0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message <20180122153003.664e1613bbf70ab49c5c1541@bidouilliste.com>, Emmanuel > Vadot writes: > > >[...] there is no way to > >know what the user will do so every node not used by the SBC must be > >disabled. > > [...] until the user explicitly tells us, for instance with the command: > > kldload /boot/kernel/bcm283x_pwm.ko > > I'm not sure who was the first to run 386BSD on a laptop 25 years > ago, I was certainly one of the first five. 25 years ago I was trying to finish Ghouls and Ghosts on my Sega Megadrive and had no idea what BSD was. Now I write code for FreeBSD for arm SoCs which is not a violation of how stuff works. Time isn't always relevant. > Ever since then our explicit goal has been to *not* require reboots > for reconfiguration, unless there was no way to avoid it. Nothing > you or the "DT guys" can say, can convince me that we should reverse > that course. > > I don't care how it works, but enabling and using PWM on an > out-of-the-box RPi should not require a reboot. But you are not providing a good way to do it, this is a selfish commit because you just want to use PWM on your RPI and this is not how we should do things in FreeBSD. > Over&Out P.S.: I still can't finish Ghouls And Ghosts, someone please help me. -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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