FCDEV3B bring-up status

[Mychaela Falconia]

Hi Serg,

> Just a quick report that I received the board and was able to load a fresh
> build of magnetite from the repo into xram.

Awesome!

> The next step would be to perform calibration.

Have fun! :-)

> I see that in order to run high baud rate of the serial interface a driver
> patch is needed.

Either that, or use a CP2102 adapter on which you would only need to
program the EEPROM once.  I use FT2232D because for my area of interest
(full classic modem functionality) I would like to connect both UARTs
and using a single USB device for the two UARTs is better for sanity,
but if you only need to connect one UART (for what you are doing having
just RVTMUX should be sufficient), then CP2102 becomes an attractive
option.

If you would like to try the CP2102 route, there are CP2102 adapters
sold on ebay with the 3.3V serial interface brought out on male header
pins, so you would connect that adapter to FCDEV3B in exactly the same
way as how you must have done it with the FT2232D adapter board I sent
you.  You would need to program the CP2102 EEPROM per the instructions
in OsmocomBB wiki.

> I have my dev environment set up on Ubuntu 16 LTS, however
> it would be nice to establish some sort of a common baseline.
> Build host Linux distro and version
> No automatic updates, toolchain should provide reliable and predictable
> environment. List of software packages installed along with their versions.
> This will make troubleshooting much easier.
>
> Should we consider hosting of the GCC based build environment in the repo,
> just like Wine stuff? KVM or virtual box images? Or maybe builtroot with
> selfhosted sources, so it can be rebuilt in a canonical way from scratch if
> needed.

If you send me your ssh public key and your preferred username, I'll
create you an account on the freecalypso.org server that comes with a
member web directory where you can upload stuff you'd like to publish:
anything you upload to /var/www/members/<your_username> will appear on
the web server under /members/<your_username>/.  You can then create
whatever packages you like in whatever format you like, upload them
there, and share the URL with the community.

M~