[riot-devel] Does the servo driver work on atmegas?

[Wouter Symons]

Hello all,

I spent quite some time yesterday trying to get a servo working on an 
atmega1284p, unfortunately to no avail.

I was wondering if it is even possible at all. The current version of 
the PWM peripheral has its resolution limited to 256. I think this 
limitation is probably the cause for it not working.

I tried removing the asserts that enforce this limitation, and this 
caused the servo to rotate into one direction, but then stop moving 
again (I could not get it to rotate in the other direction).

I tried the same servo on a nucleo-board and this worked just fine. 
However... only with a resolution way higher than 256. (Because STM32 
does not have this limitation)

So I wonder... should atmega be blacklisted for this test, since it 
cannot work? And would there maybe be a workaround to this problem? I'm 
not that experienced on this matter, so I'm not really sure why the 
limitation on this resolution was put in place, but is it possible to 
make changes to the peripheral driver so we can increase it?

It's also possible that I'm simply doing something very wrong, and that 
it should work without any changes. (hence the reason I asked on this 
mailing list instead of opening an issue straight away)

Kind regards,

Wouter