Re: [ts-7000] kernel 2.6.28.3 for TS-72XX [take2]

Hi Eddie,
I would like the ability to integrate TS-VIDCORE (And the other TS IP cores) with my own ts7300_top FPGA code.   Is there already a way to do this?  I heard rumors that this might be forthcoming.


--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Eddie Dawydiuk <> wrote:

From: Eddie Dawydiuk <>
Subject: Re: [ts-7000] kernel 2.6.28.3 for TS-72XX [take2]
To:
Received: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 9:15 PM

Hello,

> PS: Does anybody have news about TS company, didn't head from them since
> a while. What are they working on lately? Are they going thought the
> financial crisis?

Technologic Systems has been seeing continual growth, even through the
economic downturn. I don't want to give out too much information about
what engineering is currently working on, but I can give some info. This
year we will be releasing three new products using SoC's not currently
used by TS. The first of the three boards will be using a PowerPC
SoC(www.embeddedppc .com ;). The hardware design is complete and I am in
the process of getting a 2.6.28 kernel ported. Further I've been able to
convince management to allow us to work with the Linux community to get
the board supported mainline. We are still in the early stages of the
kernel port, so please let me know if you have any suggestions/ software
features you'd like to see(although I know this is a bit difficult without
knowing the hardware specs). If anyone is interested in helping to make
this port happen(I'm hoping we won't have to rewrite to much code in order
to satisfy the various Linux maintainers in order to accept the TS-8150
support in the mainline kernel). Or if anyone is interested in being the
official maintainer please contact me off list. The next board we will be
releasing is in the hardware design phase, I don't want to say too much
about it yet. Although I can tell you the design is using the ARM
architecture and is targeting low cost with a small form factor. It will
be our lowest cost board as well as our smallest board to date. The third
board in the pipeline is still in the board layout phase. It is the board
I am most excited about. I can't say too much about it yet, although it
will be our fastest board yet with a surprising low cost and power
consumption. I have a few home automation projects I'd like to use it for
as well as possibly a carputer.

As many of our customers know we like to pick our customers brains. That
is when customers call in we like to ask about what projects they're
working on and ask what types of products/peripheral s they'd like to see
TS design in the future. Although we really haven't posed these types of
questions on the mailing list yet. So let us know are there any
peripherals, busses... you'd like to see TS use for new designs? If you
were the designer and you had control over what cores to add to the FPGA
of a new board what cores would you put in the FPGA?

Regards,
//Eddie

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