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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rpi4B needs power off reboot for TV hat
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:52:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:53:56 +0200, Joerg Walther wrote:

> This actually is a bug in the driver for the adapter, which you could
> report to the maintainer.

I would agree. On a reboot, the driver should be able to initialize the 
device to the same condition it would be after a power cycle.

There may be some exceptions, I dunno: maybe avoid reloading large 
firmware blobs, that kind of thing. But it would be good to have options 
for overriding all of these. Treat them only as optimizations.