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00:41.22[g2]beewoolie-away, got a slug handy ?
00:41.51beewoolie-away[g2]: Why?
00:42.17[g2]can you compute a checksum for me ?
00:42.26beewoolie-away[g2]: Do you know if I can download unslung 4.x?
00:42.28[g2]I'm comparing to make sure lots of ppl have the same one
00:42.35beewoolie-awayChecksum on what?
00:42.37[g2]I'm checking right now
00:43.07[g2]I don't see the 4.x beta
00:43.20[g2]I didn't think there were 20 Alpha users yet
00:43.29[g2]http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116564
00:43.42beewoolie-awayrwhitby as looking for testers.  I thought it was for unslung, but I'm not usre.
00:44.03beewoolie-awayI looked there already.
00:44.04[g2]yes, standard release policy is 20 Alpha users building from source
00:44.23beewoolie-awayMaybe he was talking about openslug.
00:44.46[g2]NO, OpenSlug has had 20+ for over a month
00:45.10[g2]there's 28 OpenSluggers now
00:45.19[g2]Only 15 4.x
00:45.27[g2]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/database
00:45.47[g2]2 alternate boot loaders
00:46.52beewoolie-awayMaybe that's it, then.
00:47.09[g2]nod. I won't get "released" until there's 20
00:47.26[g2]Maybe if you asked rwhitby he'd send you a binary
00:47.31beewoolie-awayI loathe yahoo groups.
00:47.45beewoolie-awaycan I build 4.x from OE?
00:47.52[g2]most probably
00:48.32[g2]I'd imagine you'd just mv tmp to tmp_openslug and change the distro from openslug to unslung and rebuild the whole shooting match
00:48.55[g2]although It's been many months since I did that
00:49.00[g2]build unslung
00:49.24beewoolie-awayI'm building unslung right now.
00:49.38[g2]cool
00:49.54[g2]so you got a NSLU2 around that you've got console to ?
00:50.00beewoolie-awayI've got the big disk ready to go.  all I need is a working system and I'll be putting one into a test rotation before delopying it as a server on  my network.
00:50.23beewoolie-awaywhat checksum do you need?
00:55.48jacquesanyone built openslug lately?
00:55.57[g2]nope
00:56.08[g2]I've been bootloadering and native compileing
00:56.10beewoolie-awayWe were just talking about that.
00:56.11[g2]I've been bootloadering and native compiling
00:56.19[g2]bbiab
00:56.29jacquesI tried a few days ago and it didn't complete
00:57.28jacquesmight be something simple - seemed like some disconnect between kernel config and some .bb
00:57.28[g2]I've been thinking about taking a snapshot of the OE files
00:59.07beewoolie-away[g2]: I'm going to go out for a bit.  I can look at some slug things in a couple of hours.
00:59.25[g2]ok
00:59.50[g2]when you get back can you type dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 bs=1000 count=262 | md5sum
00:59.59[g2]jacques, can you do that too ?
01:03.47jacques83deb02a8df713e638afc13bc2b4f46c
01:04.03[g2]thx, that looks familiar :)
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01:04.20qbot[g2]: are you smoking crack?
01:04.50[g2]eno83deb02a8df713e638afc13bc2b4f46c  -
01:05.05[g2]I got the same think on my two slugs
01:05.26[g2]I makes for a fancy compression algorithm
01:15.33jacquesanyone know how to create pdf files under linux?
01:15.57[g2]doesn't Latex create pdfs ?
01:16.15[g2]I know there are conversion utilities from like ps2pdf
01:16.40[g2]And I'm sure Adobe under WINE would do a nice job, but I don't think that's what you are thinking
01:17.03jacquesno, that latter is not what I want
01:17.08[g2]:)
01:17.16jacquesi dont understand why abiword doesn't just do it
01:18.43jacquesah ok, I found this; http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqCreatingPDFs
01:20.09[g2]jacques, did you see that thing (on /. irrc) about GPL fonts ?
01:20.53jacquessaw the blurb, disn't read it
01:21.50[g2]they basic thing was that from a recent court ruling document writtin using GPL fonts my be have to be GPL
01:22.25[g2]I think ppl are looking in to getting an exception, (kinda like lgpl) so the documents could still abe copyrighted as normal doc
01:22.44jacquesbah
01:23.04jacquesthere is a bug requesting builtin pdf exporting capabilities for abiword - from 2001
01:23.10jacquesstill open
01:23.17[g2]DOH!
01:28.05jacqueslooks like if I re-build abiword with gnome support, and build gnome-print (neither of which I want to do) I can get pdf files
01:28.17jacquesmaybe I'll try pdflatex
01:31.40jacquesor ps2pdf
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15:28.58JMunakrahttps://sourceforge.net/projects/jtagpack/
15:29.09JMunakrameine software
15:29.15JMunakramy software :)
15:51.52[g2]JMunakra, thx
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18:09.14JMunakrahttps://sourceforge.net/projects/jtagpack/
18:09.19JMunakramy software :)
18:35.25beewoolie-awayNice.  I'll take a look.
18:38.29beewoolie-awayJMunakra: what are the difference pieces?
18:39.16JMunakralook at the project homepage
18:42.27beewoolie-awayI am.
18:42.37beewoolie-awaythere are three packages.  What do they do?
18:45.19beewoolie-awayJMunakra: ?
18:46.24JMunakrahttp://jtagpack.sourceforge.net/
18:46.28JMunakrado you see this page?
18:46.46beewoolie-awayNo.  I followed the other link.
18:46.50beewoolie-awayLooking now.
18:46.55JMunakrawhich link?
18:47.20JMunakraOh, yeah. The summary page.
18:49.10beewoolie-awayDoes the stub run on the target?
18:49.26JMunakrano, currently everything runs on the host
18:49.40beewoolie-awayInteresting.
18:50.16JMunakraone task would be moving parts of the lib to JTAG emulator hardware
18:50.28JMunakrato speed things up
18:50.59beewoolie-awayWhich has been the point of this channel...
18:51.15beewoolie-awayI'm just curious what you've already got running.
18:53.33beewoolie-awayI'm got a friend working on the bsdl parser.
18:53.37JMunakraOne thing that could be rather easily done is write a cable driver that sends commands to the emulator
18:53.53beewoolie-awayI don't know what you mean.  what emulator?
18:54.21JMunakraHardware that does the bitshifting
18:54.36beewoolie-awayFrankly, I'm more that curious.  I've been using the openwince code and not bee happy with the design.
18:55.04beewoolie-away...that would the the TAP, I believe.  The emulator component is usually the interface box because it is 'emulating' the jtag protocol.
18:56.18[g2]beewoolie-away, so lets start to put an architecture in place
18:56.29[g2]and begin replacing the stuff piece by piece
18:56.34[g2]or creating it for the first time
18:56.48beewoolie-awayWhen I finish this milestone, within a few weeks now, I'll put some time to sorting all of this out.  I'd really like to work with JTAG enough to know where the bottlenecks will be.
18:56.54beewoolie-away[g2]: What do you mean?
18:57.27[g2]beewoolie-away, you mentioned that you have not been happy with the design of OpenWinCE
18:58.03[g2]I mean you could say OpenWinCE could be improved by xxxxx because of yyyy
18:58.49[g2]maybe we should just schedule a review of the OpenWinCE sw on some date and have an online design review
18:59.37JMunakrayou shouls also evaluate jelie
18:59.50beewoolie-awaySounds OK.  My beef with the openwince is that the interface is overly complex and there are no debug options to handle failures.
18:59.50JMunakrashould
18:59.55beewoolie-awayI agree.
19:00.20[g2]ok that sounds like a very reasonable statement
19:00.33beewoolie-awayWe;ve been stalled for a couple of months because of an expected USB hardware piece.  There isn't really a reason to wait on the SW since the dongle is just transport...unless we design something with an FPGA.
19:00.47beewoolie-awayI think it makes sense, though, to think of an FPGA as an accelerator.
19:00.55JMunakraI would want to help out with the design review if you like
19:01.04beewoolie-awayUltimately, my interest is in debug, not simple flash programming.
19:01.12[g2]nod.
19:01.18[g2]Both are important
19:01.19beewoolie-awayThis sounds like something that should go on the wiki.
19:01.25[g2]exactly
19:01.55beewoolie-awaySimple, JMunakra is the only person to provide something tangible.  We'd be stoopid to exclude you.
19:02.11[g2]*really stoopid*
19:02.21beewoolie-awayCatastrophically.
19:02.55beewoolie-awayJMunakra: where do you interface to the bsdl data?
19:03.35JMunakraWell, my intent is to create a platform, not so much specific solutions. But of course, I want experts for specific architectures/applications to fill in the details...
19:03.58[g2]JMunakra, what are your goals for the platform and otherwise ?
19:04.20JMunakrabeewoolie: I'm not sure whether these are used currently
19:05.18JMunakrag2: People should have the least possible trouble creating own interfaces (hardware) drivers, and same for debuggers/apps
19:05.24beewoolie-awayJMunakra: Where (or what) is Nahitafu
19:05.59[g2]JMunakra, I'd imagine we want a backend to GDB
19:06.08beewoolie-away[g2]: there already is one.
19:06.31JMunakranahitech.com
19:06.36beewoolie-awayThe trouble is, I believe, that the specific implementation of the GDB interface must be custom for each core.  Or, at least, each family.
19:06.43JMunakrathe code isn't available from them anymore tho :)
19:07.06beewoolie-awayJapanese?
19:07.12JMunakrayes
19:08.02[g2]beewoolie-away, are you familiar with the abatron devices at all ?
19:08.11beewoolie-awayQuite.
19:08.12JMunakrabee: have a look at libjtagice. That's the core specific stuff. the jtagstub part is generic
19:08.35beewoolie-awayI'm seeing bsdl stuff in the core.
19:10.08beewoolie-awayThe parser is n the libjtag.
19:10.16JMunakraCheck and see whether that's used. I think it uses devicedb.txt, which contains some compacted info from the bsdl file.
19:11.45beewoolie-awayAh,
19:12.11JMunakrabbl
19:12.50beewoolie-awayttfn
19:12.58[g2]see you later
19:13.14JMunakraback :)
19:14.56JMunakraSo, I realize that you just need a tool to do your JTAG stuff. I'm not sure how good openwince/jelie are, and how much trouble it is to extend it to your wishes, compared to doing same with jtagpack.
19:15.42JMunakraBasically, you have to check whether the jtagpack architecture gives you a benefit (like easily switching the cable hardware, e.g)
19:16.05JMunakrathat will outweigh migrating and debugging Xscale tools to jtagpack
19:41.01beewoolie-awayJMunakra: I'll have to take a look.  the first task would be to get it to interface to one of my existing boards.
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20:29.17JMunakrabeewolie: You'd probably use a prnprt type interface. I tried it with a Xilinx Parallel Cable III, you need to check whether other interfaces (Wiggler et al) have the same pin assignment
20:30.01JMunakrathen I'd recommend trying some ARM7TDMI target, to verify everything works as expected (because that's what I'm using right now)
20:34.05JMunakrahm, I checked my sources in to sourceforge cvs like three hours ago, and they still don't show up on the statistics/CVSWeb
21:15.38[g2]JMunakra, do you know of any realy cheap ARM7 targets ?
21:18.42JMunakrahttp://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html
21:19.41JMunakrathe proto boards start at US$59
21:19.48[g2]cool
21:29.54JMunakraGotta go. Talk to you tomorrow.
21:40.55JMunakrathedj: So the timestamps are OK when you go directly to the HAL, and bad if you go through AUHAL?
21:41.06JMunakrawrong window

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