Hi Anouk --
--- In "Anouk Ahamitet" <> wrote:
>
> OK, I can accept that. Technologic didn't mention that their
> package only worked with certain distros, just that it required
> an x86 linux, which I provided. When I reported the error, I
> was only told that *I* did something wrong and, eventually,
> that they were no longer going to support me unless I convinced
> the president of their company to do so.
Nothing personal, and I know you are by no means a newbie, but take a
look at one of my all-time-favorite posts on this ML:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/10927
Long ago I took the view that TS is a hardware company, with some
interesting proof-of-concept software that can be useful in testing
their boards. The rest is up to me.
Personally I prefer buying low-cost, well-documented,
open-source-friendly hardware, rather than similar hardware that must
priced higher to support an entire (usually windows oriented) software
development / certification team than I neither want nor need.
> > PS - There are much better ways of increasing the timer resolution
> > than by increasing HZ. I believe high resolution timers are available
> > for the orion5 platform, but you would need a 2.6.28 kernel I think.
>
> I keep hearing about orion stuff, but I'm not finding much as far as
> documentation on the embeddedarm web site. Is it hidden somewhere
Orion is the product name for the family of Marvel processors used on
the TS-7800 and many other NAS boards. The name was not in use when
TS developed & froze their 2.6.21 kernel for the TS-7800, so you won't
see it much in TS literature. But you do see it now in vanilla
kernels, which support orion and TS-7800 out of the box since about
version 2.6.26. (Thanks to lots of work by Alexander Clouter for the
TS-7800 support). Grab the latest kernel tree, and browse through
arch/arm/mach-orion5x.
> on their ftp server? Are there special libraries or other packages that
> need to be installed? I'm more than willing to put a newer kernel on
> the thing, as long as I can be sure that we still have access to the
> necessary TS-7800 board functions (which I cannot list off the top
> of my head). And I don't want most services (like apache, mysql,
> mail, all that junk), mostly just ssh and maybe ftp.
I don't have a TS-7800, but AFAIK the only thing that takes a little
extra work is getting the TS binary object file to link in properly if
you want SD support. This has been discussed before and is in the
archives.
regards, .......... Charlie
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