Commit e74576ea authored by Alessandro Rubini's avatar Alessandro Rubini

doc: new binaries, and new release number

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini's avatarAlessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
parent b2015f82
......@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@
@setchapternewpage off
@set update-month October 2012
@set update-month December 2012
@finalout
@titlepage
@title SPEC Software Support
@subtitle (@value{update-month})
@subtitle Version 2.2 (@value{update-month})
@subtitle A driver for the SPEC card and its FMC modules
@author Alessandro Rubini for CERN (BE-CO-HT)
@end titlepage
......@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Failure of any of the above steps is fatal.
The suggested @code{spec-init.bin} gateware binary is always available
from the @i{files} area of the @i{spec-sw} project on @code{ohwr.org}.
The current binary version to be used with this software version is
@url{http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1454/spec-init.bin-2012-07-24}.
@url{http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1756/spec-init.bin-2012-12-14}.
The EEPROM content that the carrier driver reads at initialization time
is still available to mezzanine drivers after they are loaded, but a
......@@ -521,14 +521,15 @@ the @i{files} tab of the Open Hardware Repository. The direct
links are as follows (the former is required, the latter is optional):
@example
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1633/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-10-02
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1611/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-26
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1757/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-12-14
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1758/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-12-14
@end example
The date is included in the binary name so we won't need to remove the
binaries when they are obsoleted by newer ones:
@i{spec-sw} releases are expected to continue working in the
future, and if you are using this version you need those very files.
@i{spec-sw} releases are expected to keep working in the future, with
no comulsory updates: if you are using this version you need those very files
to be available over time.
You can copy the following command sequence to your shell
in order to fill your @file{/lib/firmware/fmc} with everything that's
needed to run @i{wr-nic}:
......@@ -536,9 +537,9 @@ needed to run @i{wr-nic}:
@smallexample
cd /tmp
wget -O wr_nic_dio.bin \
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1633/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-10-02
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1757/wr_nic_dio.bin-2012-12-14
wget -O wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin \
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1611/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-09-26
http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1758/wr_nic_dio-wrc.bin-2012-12-14
sudo mv wr_nic_dio wr_nic_dio-wrc /lib/firmware/fmc
@end smallexample
......@@ -593,6 +594,8 @@ The complete reference of the shell commands is included in the
@i{wrpc-sw} manual in the @i{files} tab of the project. The direct
link is
@url{http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/download/1586/wrpc-v2.0.pdf}.
(Actually, you should get the latest available or, even better, the
documentation that is part of the package you are running).
The most useful commands are repeated here for your convenience
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