This is the price I pay for being greedy,
While working through the book exploring raspberry pi by Derek Malloy (an excellent book for understanding embedded Linux),
When I append
bcm2835.vc_i2c_override=1
to /boot/cmdline.txt using
sudo sh -c "echo bcm2835.vc_i2c_override=1 > /boot/cmdline.txt"
and append
dtparam=i2c_vc=on
to /boot/config.txt using
sudo sh -c "echo dtparam=i2c_vc=on > /boot/config.txt"
my RPI3 crashes upon reboot, meaning it goes into panic mode and none of the cores load.
reinstalling raspbian lite from debug fixes the problem short of being able to enable i2c-0, the i2c device used for RPI HATs.
uname -a tells me that I'm using 4.9.59-v7, I later tried this on 4.14.18-v7 resulting in the same behavior.
the i2c-1 device was/is available in /dev, I manually enabled this prior to attempting to enable i2c-0.
/boot/config.txt has dtparam=i2c_vc=on and dtparam=i2c_arm=on
/etc/modules contained i2c-dev and i2c-bcm2835
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.