[SOLVED][OP2] Latest beta does not boot on RPI3+ with Moitessier HAT 1

[emilecantin]

You are running a very old firmware version.  I will try to flash a moitessier hat 1 with that. Thanks.

Yeah, as soon as you mentioned firmware updates I thought that might be the issue. There are 2 things I want to emphasize, though:

• This is the hardware I currently use on my sailboat. It's the winter here so my boat won't be in the water until May, but I don't want to mess up my existing, working setup just to help debug some stuff. I'm happy to try non-destructive stuff (no updates to firmware), though.
  
• The driver really should be more robust than that. The HAT might not work properly (if at all) with a mismatched driver & firmware, and that's fine, but it really shouldn't be crashing the whole system.
  

I get that this is open-source software, so "best effort" and all that, and I also understand that this is pre-release software. It's fine for these things to happen at this stage, and that's why I'm happy to help test stuff and report issues I find. However, please fix this before cutting the "final" release of OP2. If we want open-source marine electronics to succeed & move beyond the "geek" market, we have to take this kind of things seriously. (rant over)

I'm a Web developer, so I don't know much about Linux drivers, but let me know if there's anything else I can do.