Scott Hiles
2004-06-21 04:18:39 UTC
OK, after a long delay, I finally have some time to work on the drivers. I
think I have found the source to a couple of the larger problems from the
previous release and I think we can start testing again.
Problem 1 was that there was no debugging output for the userspace daemons.
That is fixed in this release.
Problem 2 was that the drivers didn't work with processors other than
Pentium III's. That was because I tried to create a generic set of options
to compile the device driver but it didn't work for other types of machines.
So, the big change here is that:
1) You must install and compile the linux-2.6.7 (or higher) source tree
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.7.tar.gz). You have
to boot off of the 2.6.7 kernel before you can start building the drivers.
2) You patch the drivers into the kernel source tree, remake the modules
and then install the modules.
If you do these two things, I have my fingers crossed that the drivers will
work on a diverse set of platforms. We will see what kind of luck others
have.
I also made some minor tweaks to the serial version of the PowerLinc to try
to get it to recognize the powerlink serial devices more reliably.
The drivers are released under a new project called wish-2. Same overall
project, but a new release tree. Version 1.6.10 will be the tree for kernel
2.4, and version 2.0.X will be for kernel 2.6.7 and higher.
Scott
think I have found the source to a couple of the larger problems from the
previous release and I think we can start testing again.
Problem 1 was that there was no debugging output for the userspace daemons.
That is fixed in this release.
Problem 2 was that the drivers didn't work with processors other than
Pentium III's. That was because I tried to create a generic set of options
to compile the device driver but it didn't work for other types of machines.
So, the big change here is that:
1) You must install and compile the linux-2.6.7 (or higher) source tree
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.7.tar.gz). You have
to boot off of the 2.6.7 kernel before you can start building the drivers.
2) You patch the drivers into the kernel source tree, remake the modules
and then install the modules.
If you do these two things, I have my fingers crossed that the drivers will
work on a diverse set of platforms. We will see what kind of luck others
have.
I also made some minor tweaks to the serial version of the PowerLinc to try
to get it to recognize the powerlink serial devices more reliably.
The drivers are released under a new project called wish-2. Same overall
project, but a new release tree. Version 1.6.10 will be the tree for kernel
2.4, and version 2.0.X will be for kernel 2.6.7 and higher.
Scott