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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7800 New Release - WAS TS-7800 serial and RTC at boot
From: "kvnherrera" <>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:13:23 -0000
--- In  "Ronald Gomes" <> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> We have a new software release for the TS-7800 - dated Jun102008.
> Everything is available at our FTP site.
> 
> The new software fixes some reported bugs, enables boot-time of 0.69s
> from Flash, uses JFS as the SDCard filesystem, etc...
> More info can be found through this release note:
> http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=343
> <http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=343>
> 
> 
> --- In  "Anouk Ahamitet" <snowcone27@> wrote:
> >
> > Some notes for folks moving from the 7250 to the 7800 would have
> > been a HUGE help.  For example, things like using rtc7800 instead of
> > hwclock, necessity of /activating/ the PC104 bus before use, the fact
> > that (a) the serial ports on the 7800 don't seem to exist until
> > 'modprobe tsuart7800' is run, and then the devices created by that
> > command ARE NOT the serial port names:  instead the standard
> /dev/ttySn
> > names work on the 7800 (where they don't on the 7250).
> 
> Thanks for your comments. A platform migration guide is on our TO-DO
> list.
> Meanwhile, the commands pc104on and pc104off are now available at the
> fastboot prompt.
> The tsuart7800 module is now loaded during boot by the linuxrc script
> and the devices are available right after.
> 
> Regards,
> Ronald.
>

Ronald.

I really think that the guide would be a great help for most of us. I just want 
to suggest that maybe it would be nice for the guide to be build a wiki so 
newbies can read basic things, and experts can add things in order to stop 
using the forum for trivial questions.

                      regards
                           Kevin H.



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