[Marc8-driver-users] Welcome and first status

[Thorsten <to...@gm...>]

Hi!

So first of all I will welcome you on the marc8-driver-user mailing
list! The list is intended to discuss problems and inprovement of the
MARC8 Midi driver. I think in the first phase of development it will be
mainly a discussion forum for testers of the driver.

All my current work is available only at the Subversion repository at
the moment. To test the driver you have to ceckout the last version (see
Code->SVN on project page). To compile and load the module type in the
driver directory (You need the kernel sources for it):

make
insmod marc8.ko

I try to commit only versions which are "insertable". That means that I
think it won't hang-up your system. But you should be aware of the
possibility of a hang-up while loading/testing the driver. So you will
be responsible for you own data safty ;-).

Finally I will give you a status of my current achievement:
- Successfully loading of the module
- Allocating the required resources
- Initializing the FPGA, ADDA
- First static monitor routing working (ch1 -> ch1, ch2 -> ch2, ch3 ->
ch3, ...)

I had problems with interrupt sharing, so I disabled this mode at the
moment.


Regards,
Thorsten