[Milkymist-devel] Version 0.1.3 released

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

Hi,

Thanks for porting the drivers so far :)

Your binaries are working on my board. BTW, I just noticed that you should be 
careful formatting the CF card with FAT16 (no FAT32 because it is not 
supported yet by the simple FAT reading code - if anyone wants to submit a 
patch...). This has been a source of many problems. To format with FAT16, you 
can for example use mkdosfs -F 16.

The current issues I see with Linux are:
- writing to the CF card does not work. It fails with the message
"xsysace xsysace.0: kicking stalled fsm; state=3 task=3 iter=46 dc=0"
and it puts the SystemACE chip in a non-recoverable state, requiring pressing 
its reset button or power-cycling the board
- we should get rid of the Xenomai dependency
- we should find a better way to synchronize the framebuffer in DRAM (possibly 
by doing some changes to the hardware) - the current L2 flush with the cursor 
blink does not work so well.
- we should cleanup the serial driver, there are many remnants and dead code 
from the original LM32UART driver, but I guess you are already working on 
this.

Sébastien