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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: I'm shocked and amazed!
From: "Charles" <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:22:00 -0000
Hi --

--- In  "Blair" <> wrote:
>
> It appears that I actually have a 2.6.34 kernel up and running on the 7350.  
> I'm not sure if the thing is totally right.  If anyone has suggestions on a 
> validation procedure, please share.

Good job!  Seems that simultaneous serial port IO and writing to the SD card is 
pretty quick to give people fits, from reading the M/L.  That might be a good 
test, as data loggers are targets for these boards.

regards, ..... Charlie
> 
> I started with Matthieu's patches.  This builds fine under a Crosstool-NG 
> toolchain on a Debian system running under Parallels on a Mac.  (I would like 
> some Parmesan with my spaghetti code though).
> 
> The 7350 has a couple of specific drivers that needed a refresh.  The tsuart 
> and xuart stuff need some minor semantic modifications.  The ts72xx files 
> need additions for the 7350's addresses and such.
> 
> The SD card driver is a little tricky since it appears to be intended as a 
> built-in rather than a module for the 72xx boards.  I haven't gotten it to 
> work as a built-in but I did get it to work as a module.  This doesn't appear 
> to be a problem since the FPGA has code to load the kernel off the SD card.
> 
> I also needed to configure the kernel for built-in RAM disk/initrd support 
> and change the boot string to use that instead of NFS.
> 
> The kernel images are also too big for the stock partitioning.  I already had 
> a slightly larger one but it will only fit the zImage.
>




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