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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: One Of Our Dinosaurs^WMTD's Is Missing
From: "charliem_1216" <>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:51:14 -0000
Hi Alex --

--- In  Alexander Clouter <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I bought myself the rather nice TS-7800 for a replacement home
router but 
> having been frustrated that my RTC seems to not work[1] and that I
too get the 
> random SD card lockups[2] I thought there was not much point
continuing with 
> the TS standard kernel :-/
> 
> So I git yanked myself a copy of the orion Linux tree and yesterday
after 
> finding that it had stalled at 2.6.25-rc1 I noticed that it is in the 
> mainline tree...WIN!

Great!  I was hoping someone would step in and get this platform code
in upstream kernel (eventually).  This orion chip has a lot of cool
features to play with ...

> For the past week[3] or so I have been slapping around support for the 
> TS-7800 which I found surprisingly easy.  Serial, SATA and the NIC
seem to 
> be working just fine.  My patch and .config file are available here:
> 
> http://www.digriz.org.uk/files/ts7800/2.6.25-rc3-orion-ts7800.diff
> http://www.digriz.org.uk/files/ts7800/linconf [.config file]
> 
> I managed to 'find' the XOR MTD that contains the bootstrapping code 
> (TS-BOOTROM) however, as the subject says, I'm still unable to
'find' the 
> 512MB NAND MTD on this thing.
> 
> Digging around the source codes of 2.6.21-ts and 2.6.25-rc3 I see
that the 
> mtd/nand/ts7800.c and mtd/nand/orion_nand.c are rather similar;
however I 
> cannot get orion_nand (or plat_nand.c) to work.  I get a grumbling
"No NAND 
> Device Found".

Sorry, I don't have a 7800 yet; no help here.

> 
> Anyone know 'where' it is?  Whilst I'm digging for bits, any idea if
the RTC 
> is on the I2C bus and where on it?  Just, if someone knows off the
top of 
> their head[4] that would be great.

AFAIK the battery backed RTC clock module is the same one as used on
the ep9302 boards: M48T86PC1 (equivalent to DS-12887).  So it's not on
I2C, but on the TS-7250 the rtc-m48t86.c works OK.  The source for the
rtc7800 utility might also help you out; it's is at:
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7800-linux/samples/

SD on TS boards will never go upstream without TS re-evaluating the SD
NDA they signed.

BTW, what do you plan for your second ethernet?

Regards, ......... Charlie

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex
> 
> [1] I am using the EABI rootfs from AD and so the 'special' binary
refuses to 
>       run, invalid and unavailable libraries (far too older version of 
>       libc I think)
> [2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/7908 and the
tssdcard 
>       kernel spins at 100% when this does occur so it is definitely that
> [3] I'm no C coder, ARM platform porting guy, just a Perl UNIX man ;)
> [4] or if they could run the i2c scanning tools for Linux on their board
> 
> -- 
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