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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: I'm shocked and amazed!
From: "Blair" <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:51:05 -0000
Just tested out USB audio, USB hubs, and the FTDI USB-to-serial drivers and 
these work fine.



--- In  "Charles" <> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi --
> 
> --- In  "Blair" <bburtan65@> 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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