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Re: [ts-7000] Re: Advantages of ts10 kernel over ts9?

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Advantages of ts10 kernel over ts9?
From: "Eddie Dawydiuk" <>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:40:44 -0700 (MST)
Hello,

>> We are using TS-7260s for a project.  Is there any advantage to
>> upgrading the kernel to the ts10 version?

The ts10 kernel added support for the TS-7300, fixed the page_alloc
bug, and modified the ep93xx serial driver to invert the RTS and DTR
signals at initialization.

Upgrading to ts10 will fix the page allocation bug and fix the
initial state of the handshake lines on COM1. The other changes
won't affect you...

> I.e., are there any
>> fixes/upgrades/etc that we would benefit from, or is it best to
> take
>> the "if it's not broke don't fix it" approach and leave it be?

This is a good aproach in the embedded world. Typically reliability
is one of the most important issues in the embedded market. If you
are seeing a problem then apply the fix, but if everything is 
running fine then I would be conservative about upgrading to new
revisions of software(espicially the kernel).

> I would also be interested in this. Also, is there even just a
> simple "release notes" somewhere for the different -ts__ versions?

We try to post on this list when a new kernel is released as well
as all of the changes we have made. If you are interested or want
more information about the changes that were made let me know and
I will give you more details...

> As an aside, to get -ts10 to compile I needed to make the following
> change... Just wondering why this is so? Is it something that I have
> done/not done? Has anybody else encountered it?

This is correct. Where did you download this ts10 kernel from? I'll
ensure this fix is applied to the tarball so other users don't run
into this same problem...

//Eddie


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