Demo for Tektronix

I worked all day on getting the board ready for a demo at Tektronix. In the end I managed to write the program, but never got to test it because I found out that the JFFS2 file system does not work read/write it only works read only. In the process of discovering this I also managed to erase the entire contents of the flash file system. I think I know how to fix this, but I did not have time to get everything done. Thus unless there is a miracle tomorrow morning we will not have much of a demo. Hopefully I will be able to get a simple demonstration of the unix command line ready.

Booting in multiple ways

It’s been a little while since I last posted but a lot has happened. We have now successfully run u-boot in both UART boot and SPI boot modes. Tim Louden managed to quickly get together a flash driver for our spi chip that allows us to interface it with u-boot. Now the real work begins. The kernel itself. We found that the version of the toolchain that we were using was not compatible with the version of the kernel that we were using so we reverted back to the most recent release of the kernel rather than the svn version. This is currently being worked into the repository and hopefully linux hacking can begin tomorrow. Once we get the kernel booting the next big task is to see if we can get the audio codec to respond.