diff --git a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
index 2cdc35fcee..802f34335b 100644
--- a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
+++ b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  564920d205977d7e2846e434947708455d468d3a952feca9faef643abd03a227  bcm2835-1.71.tar.gz
+sha256  e67a986462618988a5a86752e36e3ebdd7c5cae66940ff7330aea243b2762525  bcm2835-1.73.tar.gz
 sha256  8b1ba204bb69a0ade2bfcf65ef294a920f6bb361b317dba43c7ef29d96332b9b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
index 4870aa10ba..dcf21cb5f0 100644
--- a/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
+++ b/package/bcm2835/bcm2835.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BCM2835_VERSION = 1.71
+BCM2835_VERSION = 1.73
 BCM2835_SITE = https://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835
 BCM2835_LICENSE = GPL-3.0
 BCM2835_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING