AVR32 Linux Blog (teaser)

Linux 2.6.22.atmel.2 released

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2007-07-12T21:48:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Linux 2.6.22.atmel.2, containing a small handful of improvements upon the 2.6.22.atmel.1 release, has been released. For more information and downloads, please see the LinuxPatches page. )

Linux 2.6.22 released…

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2007-07-09T22:05:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% …shortly followed by 2.6.22.atmel.1, containing many additional drivers and a few other improvements. Grab it from the LinuxPatches page and give it a spin. Please see the announcement for details. )

Mailing lists created

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2007-06-15T21:50:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Two new mailing lists have been created: "kernel" for kernel-related discussions and "u-boot" for bootloader-related discussions. Read more at the MailingLists page. )

New 2.6.20 patchsets, CompactFlash driver

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2007-03-04T15:34:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% New AVR32 Linux kernel patchsets based on the 2.6.20 kernel have been released. Preliminary patches adding support for CompactFlash have also been added. )

Linux 2.6.20 released

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2007-02-10T15:53:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Linux 2.6.20 was released last sunday, with support for the MACB driver out of the box and a handful of other AVR32-related fixes and improvements. )

Updated patches

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-12-03T18:59:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Updated patches for Linux (both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19), U-Boot, Binutils, GCC and uClibc are available. Please test if you feel adventurous.

Also, Linux 2.6.19 has been released with support for AVR32 out of the box. )

AVR32 Linux Application Repository

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-11-19T00:49:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% A new Application Repository has been added. We encourage everyone who try out new applications on AVR32 Linux to post their efforts there, and to try out the applications already listed. )

Spam attack

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-11-19T00:26:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Some spammers figured that this site could be used to host their crap. Not anymore. )

AVR32 support in mainstream linux and u-boot, site updates

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-11-10T14:43:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% It's been a long time since the last news post here, although a lot of things have been happening. The mainstream linux and u-boot trees now feature AVR32 support, drivers have been submitted for review, and avr32linux.org has seen a minor reorganization, including a new "application repository" where everyone can submit information about applications they have working on avr32-linux. )

More updates to the GettingStarted page

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-08-28T19:09:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Another round of updates found its way to the GettingStarted page. Special thanks to squidgit from the AVR32 forum at avrfreaks.net for a nice summary of what he had to do to compile the AVR32 toolchain. Some of the status pages for the LinuxKernel have been updated as well. )

New experimental patchset based on 2.6.18-rc4-mm2

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-08-23T12:37:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% A new experimental patchset is available from the LinuxPatches page. Among the new features are MTD support (for flash-based filsystems) and a driver for the Static Memory Controller. )

Updated patchset against v2.6.18-rc1 available

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-07-10T09:28:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% A new patchset is available from the LinuxPatches page. This includes fixes for a lot of issues found by people on the linux-kernel mailing list, new interrupt handling code based on genirq and experimental preempt support. )

GettingStarted page updated

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-07-06T13:42:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% The GettingStarted pages has been extended to the point that it should actually be possible to build the kernel and C library by following the instructions there. All necessary patches have been uploaded as well. )

AVR32 patchset against Linux 2.6.18-rc1 available

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-07-06T08:23:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% This is basically the same as the previous patchset, but it applies cleanly to v2.6.18-rc1. Get it from the LinuxPatches page. )

Updated experimental patchset

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-07-05T14:05:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% The latest patchset available from the LinuxPatches page features two new drivers and some cleanups. )

New experimental patchset available

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-06-29T15:28:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% A new experimental patchset against a 2.6.17 git snapshot is available at LinuxPatches, featuring a rewritten clock management framework. )

Blogging news

HaavardSkinnemoen — 2006-05-28T13:54:00Z

%CALC{"$IF($EXACT(BlogComment,BlogEntry, replies on \"[[][]]\":)"}% Let's try to use the Blog plugin for site news. )