RE: [ECOS] Ecos on the Technologic Systems - TS7300

["Austin, Brian" <Brian dot Austin at cirrus dot com>]

We have no IP that we are holding onto.

The code is there and available for anyone to pickup and maintain.

Cirrus Logic does not support their ARM9/ARM7's anymore as far a Linux
goes.

Sorry Guys,

I moved to another department and am out of the loop of the ARM code for
Linux.


Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:51 PM
To: hartleys
Cc: James Bewley; ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com; Mike Nelis
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Ecos on the Technologic Systems - TS7300

hartleys wrote:
> On Friday, November 14, 2008 11:11 AM, James Bewley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm interested in getting ecos running on the TS7300 SBC,
>> although it currently looks like this board is unsupported.
>> So without getting too far into the ecos code to port it
>> i've been compiling redboot using several configs, one for
>> TS7250 and more generic configs based around the Cirrus
>> logic EP9302 arm.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to get ecos/redboot running on this SBC
>> or even the EP9302?
> 
> I have ecos/redboot running on an EP9307 based board using the ep93xx
> port found on the Cirrus Logic website.
> 
> The patch can be found in the "crater" release they put out. You can
get
> the source at:
> 
>
http://arm.cirrus.com/files/linux/releases/linux-2.6/1.0.3/linux_1-0-3-s
> rc.tar.bz2
> 
> That tarball consists of a really crippled buildroot with only some of
> the packages that buildroot has. In it under
./packages/bootloader/ecos
> you will find the ecos-edb93xx.patch. Ignore the other patches, they
are
> not really necessary and the ecos-flashP30.patch doesn't work
correctly.
> 
> I'm not sure where the edb93xx support originated from but the main
> "Author(s)" listed in the patch are: gthomas, hmt, nickg, and jskov.

Basically this is the list [many] of the original eCos creators,
going back to 1998 or so.  AFAIK none of them had anything to do
with the Cirrus patch for the EP93xx

> 
>> I'm interested in getting redboot on this board as it currently
>> only has TSBOOT, a very limited bootloader supplied by TS.  I
>> have however been using TSBOOT to load redboot into ram and
>> executing it from there.
> 
> The edb93xx patch above might not be totally complete but it does boot
> RedBoot and executes Linux with no problems on my hardware.
> 
>> This board lacks JTAG or any other ICE interface so i guess my
>> main priority at the moment it to get some output from COM1 for
>> debugging.
> 
> UART1 support is there along with Ethernet and Flash support. The
stubs
> appear to be there for UART2 and UART3 but I have not had a chance to
> figure out what is needed to get them to work.
> 
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> I really would like to see the ep93xx supported in the cvs. If there
is
> anything I can do to help let me know.

Talk to Cirrus - it's up to them to bring the port/patch to
the project (they own the IP).  To date, they've never been
interested in assigning their work to the eCos project.  Maybe
this will change, now that the eCos copyright is held by the
FSF and not Red Hat.


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