[Tremor] Tremor on BF533 dev board

[Robin Getz]

Sorry - I recently joined the list, and only found this while going through 
the archives.

On Tue Aug 3 12:23:07 PDT 2004 , Robert Hui wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm working on using tremor on the Analog Device's BF533 development
>board.  Has anyone had any experience with this hardware and Tremor?
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Hui

I am involved in the open source Blackfin projects found at 
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ including an open source hardware development 
platform (BF533 - 750MHz, 10/100 Ethernet, 128 Meg of SDRAM, 4 Meg of 
Flash), which has a daughter card that supports the AD1836A (5.1 channel 
out, 4 channels in + S/P-DIF in/out) A cool picture (2nd batch of boards, 
from one of the kernel developers floor) is at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/frs/download.php/123/STAMP.jpg
The Audio card is at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/frs/download.php/200/AD1836A_0v0.82.jpg

Main hardware project is at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/projects/stamp

Note that this this does not use ADI's tools, but open source boot loader 
(Das u-boot), gcc and uClinux. all available at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/projects/gcc3/
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/projects/uclinux533/
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/projects/uboot533/

A few months ago, when the version of gcc that was available was, - well, 
was pretty crappy, that ran on old version of the uClinux kernel, that was, 
well - kinda crappy too - a few people tried getting ogg vorbis going, and 
had some difficulty (compiler bugs prevented the optimizer from being 
turned on) but they were able to stream PCM across a network on the BF535 
(300MHz).

They are now talking about using the newer version of gcc that is available 
(where the optimizer mostly works), and the new kernel (2.8.x), on new 
hardware BF533 STAMP.

The same developers that did the above is now looking at tremor under 
uClinux on this platform. If you would like to become involved - let me know.

-Robin