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Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC - Software
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doc: new binaries, minor things, marked as rc2

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@titlepage
@title SPEC Software Support
@subtitle (@value{update-month})
@subtitle Version 2.0-rc2 (@value{update-month})
@subtitle A driver for the SPEC card and its FMC modules
@author Alessandro Rubini for CERN (BE-CO-HT)
@end titlepage
......@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ set the following variables in your environment:
The top directory of the kernel sources for the version you
are going to run the driver under. I'm testing mostly with 3.4,
but this version compiles against Linux-2.6.30 and later ones.
but this version compiles against Linux-2.6.36 and later ones
(2.6.35 had a different interface for hardware timestamping,
so @i{fmc} and @i{spec} compile fine, but @i{wr-nic} does not.
@item CROSS_COMPILE
......@@ -548,8 +550,8 @@ the @i{files} tab of the Open Hardware Repository. The direct
links are:
@example
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1584/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-09-13
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1585/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-13
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1596/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-09-20
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1597/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-20
@end example
The date is included in the binary name so we won't need to remove the
......@@ -561,9 +563,9 @@ needed to run @i{wr-nic}:
@smallexample
cd /tmp
wget -O wr_nic_dio.bin \
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1584/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-09-13
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1596/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-09-20
wget -O wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin \
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1585/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-13
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1597/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-20
sudo mv wr_nic_dio wr_nic_dio-wrc /lib/firmware/fmc
@end smallexample
......@@ -937,7 +939,7 @@ will be supported at module load time, not at runtime (for that please
use the UART).
@item DIO support in @i{wr-nic} is missing some of the features listed
in @file{wr-dio.h}.
in @file{wr-dio.h} (i.e., pulse trains and DAC control)>
@item DIO support should use interrupts to allow pulse trains to be generated
and timestamps to be collected without polling the FIFO.
......@@ -945,9 +947,6 @@ and timestamps to be collected without polling the FIFO.
@item The @i{wr-nic} functionality should be completely detached from
the specific mezzanine. This is a longer-term desire.
@item The package should be verified with a wide range of kernel versions.
Currently I compiled and tested only under Linux-3.4.
@end itemize
@c ##########################################################################
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