Xubuntu and Xenomai on the Lite5200 (IceCube)...

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Oct 31 04:58:52 EST 2006


On 10/30/06, David Jander <david.jander at protonic.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I got the task to help make Linux run on the IceCube, with support for MSCAN,
> FEC and USB. After a rather exciting jurney I managed to get kernel 2.6.18
> working with bestcomm DMA and FEC support backported from DENX's git
> 2.6.19-rcsomething, and Xenomai installed upon that.
> Btw, before Wolfgang Denk starts complaining why I didn't use his 2.4 kernel,
> it's because I wasn't smart enough to get USB working. If it does work,
> please tell me how, I just get errors when plugging in a USB device "kernel:
> usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)".
> This seems to work fine in 2.6, though.
> It was not easy, so I wrote everything down (I hope I didn't forget anything
> important):
>
> http://yopesblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-run-ubuntu-and-xenomai-on.html

Congratulations, that's good work!  Especially the bit about
documenting what you did!  I've been meaning to play w/ xenomai for a
while now.

Care to help with the port to arch/powerpc now?  :P

g.

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