Re: NetBSD 5.0.1 Support for the TS7200

[Patrick Collins <normalbloke%gmail.com@localhost>]

Craig,

 

That's really good news and I will download your kernel image tonight and try it out. Some follow up questions:

 

• If you could put up a 5.0.1 install kernel that would be great.
• I am really struggling to understand how to build a kernel for the TS7200 so if you had some sort of minimal procedure that would be greatly appreciated.
• Can you make your kernel config file available.
• What is the device driver support like for the ADC and DIO hardware in the 5.0.1 kernel.
• Have you had any experience writing additional hardware device drivers, examples would be appreciated.
  

Thankyou.

 

Patrick Collins

 

On 05/02/2010, Craig Kulesa <ckulesa%as.arizona.edu@localhost> wrote:

> > Has anyone been able to get 5.0.1 installed and running on the TS7200?
>
> I have NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0.1 running on several TS7200's for various lab
> purposes.  I haven't yet seen the startup panic that Ken mentioned. Weird.
>
> If you have the 8 MB Flash version of the board, you can use the minimal kernel image (gzimg-TS7200_0x60660000) that I use at:
>        http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/binaries/NetBSD/
>
> I don't have an INSTALL image handy right now, but I'll upload one next time I do a build.  In the meantime, you can use the NetBSD 3.x INSTALL image to do a functional network install of 5.0.1 (userland, just change the FTP directory), and then drop this gzimg into flash to make it self-booting.  I actually did this once!
>
> I've had great fun with these boards -- we have one operating at the highest, most isolated point on the Antarctic plateau, running a small astronomical instrument[*] and using the Iridium satellite network for communications.  Most recently, we've flown two of them on the first test flight of a stratospheric balloon-borne astronomical experiment[**]. They've survived continuous operation at -40 to -80C in Antarctica, and the nasty near-vacuum environment at 125,000 feet (35 km) altitude on the balloon.  NetBSD has been running them beautifully, with generally fewer hiccups than I had with the stock Linux (2.4) that shipped with them. Pretty nifty!
>
> Craig Kulesa
> ckulesa%as.arizona.edu@localhost
> Univ. of Arizona
>
>
> * http://mcba11.phys.unsw.edu.au/~plato/plato.html
>        (see "Instruments" --> "PreHEAT")
>
> ** http://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/2009/FSU-20091015.htm
>   http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/binaries/STO/



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