On 04/28/2018 12:39 PM, Kurt Kiefer via USRP-users wrote: >> On Apr 19, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com> wrote: >> >> On 04/16/2018 09:25 PM, Kurt Kiefer via USRP-users wrote: >>> The last release of the BSP and firmware for e3xx devices is either back at >>> fido, which was over two years ago, or jethro a year ago (though it's still >>> listed as "beta" on files.ettus.com). This age makes it increasingly >>> difficult to find compatible tooling without performing complicated manual >>> builds of software on the host and device, we miss out on features only >>> present in newer kernels, and miss out on updates to various packages that >>> would be included in an up-to-date Yocto build. >>> >>> Moving forward, does Ettus Research plan to keep the BSP updated for these >>> radios? >> >> Kurt, >> >> yes we plan to update the E310 and keep its BSP aligned with other BSPs >> that we have (e.g., the N310 BSP). There is significant work required to >> get the architectures aligned, and we have not started migrating the >> E310 to a newer BSP (and won't until we've come out of some other projects). >> >> I apologize for the delay in this -- you're correct, fido is pretty old. >> We don't have a schedule for this yet. >> >> Regards, >> Martin > > If anyone is interested, I've done the work to update the E310 BSP to Rocko > with the latest versions of everything available. You can find the layer > here, forked from upstream meta-ettus/rocko/n3xx: > https://github.com/kekiefer/meta-ettus/tree/rocko+e3xx > > Here is the updated manifest: > https://github.com/kekiefer/e300-manifest/tree/rocko > > The BSP is set up to use the current u-boot from upstream (2017.09) and > Kernel from meta-xilinx (2017.03, which is version 4.9). This was a fair > amount of work, so I really hope this helps people out and kickstarts the > Ettus efforts to get the platform back up-to-date. >
Nice work. I may have a chance to poke it next week. Philip > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com > _______________________________________________ USRP-users mailing list USRP-users@lists.ettus.com http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com
