Re: Unifying cape overlays into boot .dtb for BeagleBoard.org boards

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On 06/17/2014 11:09 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

Here's the most obvious question in the world on this topic.  Are capes
hot-pluggable?

"capes" as in Beaglebone capes might not be due to the mechanical constraints you listed.

"capes" as a concept of pluggable hardware might well be. here is a real world example of commercially available pluggable hardware add-ons on a Linux system back from 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Generation_6#Accessories

depending on the add-on, different interfaces like GPIO, UART, USB, SPI using the same pins were used and there was no reboot needed to load a new hardware configuration or change the pinmux
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