On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:38 AM Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've been testing my apps/capes with a couple of the SanCloud BBE devices to 
> see how they work and did run into a little problem.   I contacted SanCloud 
> and they confirmed that P8-10 on the BBE is a "no connect".   This is 
> documented on their web site (see pin mapping section of 
> https://www.sancloud.co.uk/?page_id=254 ) but I completely missed it.
>
> In any case, cape-universal and such still shows the pin as configurable and 
> config-pin and such can be used to set the pin as gpio out and such.  Is 
> still appears in /sys/class/gpio/.  Etc...  It just doesn't work as it's a 
> no-connect.  The question is:  should the device tree or whatever remove that 
> pin on the BBE?  For me, it was confusing as, from the OS level, it looks 
> like it should work and it looks like I can configure it and use it, but then 
> it didn't work.   However, on the flip side, my C++ code would have crashed 
> (poor programming on my side) if the stuff in /sys wasn't there as I kind of 
> assumed on the BBB's that it's there.     I can definitely update my code 
> (working on that), but the question does remain: should the devices that 
> cannot work exist in the tree?

I didn't realize P8_10 is a No Connect on this board.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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