Beaglebone black PWM minimum frequency

By trial and error, I just figured out that 1 billion is the longest period you can set for (at least this particular) PWM channel.

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000000000 > period

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000000001 > period 

bash: echo: write error: Numerical result out of range

The value is in nanoseconds, so that gives a minimum frequency of 1Hz for PWM on beaglebone black.

Also note that it won't let you set the period lower than the duty cycle setting (which we should really call the pulse width instead):

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 2000 > duty

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000 > period 

bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 500 > duty

root@beaglebone:/sys/devices/ocp.3/pwm_test_P9_31.13# echo 1000 > period