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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS7200/7250 Linux kernel
From: Matthieu Crapet <>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:45:14 +0200
Greetings,

Corcerning Cirrus patches, they are reserved for their evaluation board.
You will need a login/password to access them.
How I know that cirrus released a "2.6.8.1" patch some times ago.

Back to 2.6 !!! I posted (here) a similar question in march.
I don't remember offcial anwsers from Technologic Systems, but at this 
time it was not stable enough and in its very early development stage. 
But they worked on it.

It decided to make a (long long) try. Subscribed to linux-cirrus mailing 
list :)
With help of few people I booted my TS-7200 with 2.6.11.3-ep93xx. Few 
times later I did a terrible mistake in the flash driver, and I crashed 
my board. It was also the last days of BitKeeper, and 2 or 3 before git. 
I didn't reworked on kernel since this time.

I'm for basing our "linux-2.6.12-ep93xx-ts7200" patch from Michael 
Burian (and
co) work and not from cirrus stuff.

Easy to say, but that's not so complicated, the m.burian patch do the 
hard stuff
for you (complicated ethernet driver, serial console).
For my TS-7200 experience, it is very similar to EBD9301 (or EBD9302) :
- add a mach-ts7200.c inside arch/arm/mach-ep93xx
- hack some Kconfig files
- I remember that 1 or 2 files were missing on my rootdisk /dev. I was 
working
  with an arm testing debian

Loved the "Timer and CPU usage LEDs" option :)

Back to present, I don't have time right now for working on the kernel, 
that require some
free time and skills ! However, there are nice guys on this group and in the
linux-cirrus ml for helping you.

Good luck !

Matthieu



Wagner Scott (ST-IN/ENG1) wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>The issue of a 2.6 kernel for the TS7200 has once again been raised.  In
>my opinion, the path to a useful 2.6 kernel is dependent upon a
>well-understood kernel patch chain to generate the existing 2.4 TS7250
>kernel.
>
>TS documentation indicates that the TS kernel is patched against a
>Cirrus EP93xx kernel, which is in turn patched against kernel.org
>sources.
>
>The production TS7250 kernel, labeled 2.4.26-vrs1-cirrus-1-2-1-ts8, is
>claimed to derive from a Cirrus 2.4.26 kernel.  However, I have not
>found a 2.4.26 kernel from Cirrus, and when I ask Cirrus about a 2.4.26
>kernel they are puzzled.  (Cirrus does publish 2.4.18, 2.4.19, and
>2.4.21 kernels for the EP93xx.)  Thus, I have been unable to reconstruct
>the first link in the patch chain - the patch from kernel.org 2.4.26
>source to a Cirrus EP93xx 2.4.26 kernel.  Furthermore, when I requested
>TS patch sources to the Cirrus kernel, TS suggested that I generate the
>patches from a diff of the TS published source against the (nonexistent)
>Cirrus EP93xx 2.4.26 kernel.  In other words, I'm stuck here.
>
>If we (with TS assistance - Jesse?) can obtain the TS-specific patches
>used for the 2.4 kernel, it should be fairly easy to get to a working
>2.6 TS kernel.  There is already a good 2.6.12 patch set for EP93xx
>(http://members.inode.at/m.burian/ep93xx/), which I have tested on my
>Cirrus EDB9301 eval board.  With this patch set, and some mods to the TS
>patches, a TS 2.6.12 kernel should be reasonably straightforward.
>
>So - TS folks - is there any way to isolate and publish the TS7200 /
>TS7250 specific patches against the Cirrus 2.4 kernel, so we can analyze
>the problem and get started?
>
>Thanks
>Scott
>--------------------------------------------
>Scott Wagner
>Bosch Security Systems
>ST-IN/ENG1
>130 Perinton Parkway - Fairport, NY  14450 - USA
>Telephone: +1 (585) 223-4060 ext. 4404
>
>www.boschsecurity.us
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