TS-7800 Development History and Version Log
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TUE 2007-10-9
- Initial state

WED 2007-10-10 RG

- mvtime, mtdcp and peekpoke commands added to busybox
- linuxrc scripts changed - now show accurate boottime
- new kernel: YAFFS bug fix for chmod 777 .
- kernel modules updated at debian
- ts7800ctl, rtc7800, mtd* and others added to /usr/local/bin at debian
- debian initialization bugs fixed 
- updated all the resouces files at the 2gb vfat partition (kernel, modules, busybox, debian...)

THU 2007-10-12

- fixed /dev/mem adding ioctl to get page global directory, and fixed signed seek > 2GB error
- modified kernel cache flushing on data cache to also invalidate data
- fixed crash when rebooting from SD card
- fixed yaffs slow mount issue caused by lack of checkpointing on reboot
- remove superfluous umount in unmount scripts to eliminate error message

MON 2007-10-15 EWD

- Updated AVR bitstream, ADC is now working.
- Updated bootrom, bootrom now disables TWI bus in CPU and prints where kernel and initrd are loaded from

TUE 2007-10-16 MOS
- busybox updated by ronald
- nand/sd drivers updated by ronald
- made udev changes so it works in our boot process now
- installed zd1211 firmware in debian tarball
- installed wireless tools v29 in debian tarball
- install kernel module for zd1211 in debian tarball
- updated kernel to support 802.11 networking

FRI 2007-10-19 MOS (sarge-7800-11)
- removed udev from the boot process
- sanitized all file/directory timestamps as many were insane

WED 2007-11-07 MOS (sarge-7800-12)
- updated nand driver (corruption fix, no longer using DMA to get ECC)

TUE 2007-11-20 MOS (sarge-7800-13)
- removed exim from boot sequence as it causes a hang if no network present
- updated wireless tools so wifi dongle will work (if udev started)
- new version of ts7800ctl

WED 2007-11-28 RG 
- updated initrd to fix a bug introduced in the fastboot time display

FRI 2007-12-14 EWD
- updated FPGA bitstream (LCD fix?), SD lock functionality updated

FRI 2007-12-21 MOS (sarge-7800-14)
- updated tsuart1 driver
  We now support "Slow" baud rates for boards that can do that
  Fixed parity typo bug
- updated tsuart7800 driver
  Removed debug code that wasn't initializing all the ports

MON 2008-01-21 RG (sarge-7800-15)
-ts-7800-linux-sd FTP: update the whole tree of resources for the TS-7800 with the latest versions, including distributions, SD images, crosstools, kernel sources, binaries, docs, etc...  ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/ts-7800-linux-sd
-Kernel: kernel and modules were recompiled with latest code from CVS - new KernelImage file available - but no major modifications in the kernel
-kernel: Michael fixed some bugs on the TS-UART serial drivers
-kernel: Eddie fixed a bug in the sdcore2.c, therefore a new tssdcard driver was created
-Debian: fix timezone to utc
-Debian: fix wrong ownership of some files: Debian-exim x mysql x telnetd
-Debian: fix mysql server
-Debian: comment out nameserver on /etc/resolv.conf (MTA and FTP delay issues)
-Debian: add MTA to startup
-Debian: add mysqld to startup
-Debian: add "jamvm" (JAVA Virtual Machine) with no X/GTK support
-Debian: add "units"
-Debian: update kernel modules under /lib/modules
-Debian: update rtc7800 program
-Busybox: update ts7800_nand.ko and tssdcard.ko
-Busybox: update rtc7800
-Busybox: update linuxrc-scripts to mount /dev/pts (fix telnet bug)
-Busybox: include check-usb-update and update linuxrc scripts (uses green LED instead of red)
-Busybox: new functions in ts7800.subr (bit_set, bit_clr, bit_get, led0)
-Busybox: fix bug in peekpoke busybox utility (print to stdout by default)
-VFAT: update filesystem with last content from ts-7800-linux-sd FTP
-VFAT: include 6 new ECLIPSE C projects (tolcd, showkey, tempSensor, peekpoke, ts7800ctl, rtc7800)
-VFAT: include a ECLIPSE java project
-Production: new 512mb and 2gb SD images created with new content
-Production: KernelImage, 7800initrd and sarge-7800.tar.gz files updated
-Documentation: Michael's preliminary manual and MV88F5182 datasheet made available at website

MON 2008-02-25 EWD
- Updated AVR bitstream to fix problem where MAC address was not being set properly with JP2 off.

TUE 2008-4-08 RG
- Debian: /lib/modules updated
- Debian: udev reincluded to startup
- Debian: mysql removed from startup (too slow) but still in filesystem
- Debian: updated /usr/local/bin with utilities from FTP /ts-arm-sbc/ts-7800-linux/binaries/ts-utils
- Busybox: bug calling rtc7800 fixed (PATH modified in linuxrc scripts)
- Busybox: command createmtdroot now blasts the whole NAND from an SD Card (including mbr, kernel, initrd, debian)
- Busybox: portmap call and vfat partition mouting to /devkit were removed (not necessary features) from linuxrc scripts
- Busybox: drivers ts7800_nand.ko and tssdcard.ko updated
- Kernel modules: now include lincan, poe/eth100, ppp, 7kv, framebuffer, fb console, video, hid(mouse/keyboard)...
- Kernel: "TS-7800 DMA driver" included inside the kernel (drivers/dma/ts7800dma.c)
- Kernel: default config now included options for the two modifications above
- Kernel: NAND and SDCard drivers modified to use common DMA driver calls
- Kernel: default SDCard configuration now includes DMA support, irqwait call, Thread and clustering requests
- Kernel: included sdcard_powerok call back for BQT-7800 boards (commented out, requires new tssdcore2.c from jesse)
- Kernel: arch/arm/Kconfig modified to include drivers/dma folder
- Kernel: default IO scheduler changed to Anticipatory (other IO schedulers added to the kernel)
- Kernel: SDCard threads now have medium priority, and not the lowest
- VFAT: not uptated
- FTP: not updated, no new release
- CVS: updated with new files
- Production: new 512mb and 2gb SD images created with new content
- Production: KernelImage, 7800initrd and sarge-7800-17.tar.gz files updated

THUR 2008-4-17 EWD
- Released new AVR code to fix JTAG_RSTn problem.

TUE 2008-6-10 RG
- Kernel: time measurement bug fixed, solving issues with ping, pump, dhcp and uptime
- Kernel: new config file available for reduced kernel; usb stack and oters are now available as modules; lpj calibration value is hardcoded rather than calculated during boot-time; reduced kernel enables faster boot-time (0.69 s from flash)
- Kernel: USB serial modules were included
- Busybox: new config file available for reduced busybox; now uses only /bin and /sbin; job-control was turned-on; many features were disabled; smaller busybox fs enables faster boot-time (0.69 s from flash)
- InitRD: /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lbin were removed; local scripts are now at /lbin
- initRD: scripts createmtdroot and creatmtdboot were added to /lbin
- initRD: drivers tsuart1 and tsuard7800 were added and are loaded by linux-rc scripts
- initRD: drivers usbcore and ehci-hcd were added and are loader by the check-usb-update script
- initRD: linuxrc-fastboot was modified to allow faster bootup
- initRD: linuxrc scripts modified to allow multiple FS types for the SD Cards
- initRD: script check-usb-update modified so that it loads USB stack and other drivers which were included in the Kernel before
- initRD: df and mount were fixed
- initRD: pc104on and pc104off commands added
- Debian: /etc/modules list populated with TS-7800 modules
- Debian: /lib/modules updated
- Debian: /etc/udhcpc included to enable udhcpc from InitRD to work
- Debian: bootload, load_7300 and wrong load_ts7kv were removed; peek/poke utilities were updated to the not-buggy version
- Eclipse: Now supports Cygwin OABI cross-compiler, enabling dynamic linked binaries and development with the TS-7200 series and Kernel 2.4.
- 2GB-SD-USB VFAT: updated with last release files 
- FTP: updated with last release files 
- Production: updated with last release files (SD Images, Kernel and initrd images, Sarge tarball, etc...)

THU 2008-07-17 RG
- fixed flash MBR partition table to provide space for the yaffs bad block tables
- yaffs2 kernel tree updated to the latest from yaffs repository
- missing checkpoint on umount bug introduced with new yaffs code (to be fixed in the next release)

FRI 2008-08-28 RG
- included yaffs checkpoint code on umount
- deleted tsbootrom-update file from debian distribution
- included ts7kv init script for ts7kv auto-detection and virtual console init
- fixed 7kv frambuffer console driver (colors and +1 offset on scrolling)
- included rtc driver - rtc7800 utility is not used anymore on linuxrc scripts

FRI 2008-10-10 EWD+RG
- Fix problems related to NAND flash FS corruption
- SD card driver and NAND: check the return status of dma_op in case a dma operation is in progress.
- DMA driver: use wake_up instead of the wake_up_interuptible 
- DMA driver: Changed state of sleeping thread to uninteruptable to avoid signals to interrupt a read/write operation