About

This site is dedicated to provide useful information to the WarpComm platform - a combination of hardware and software created in a joint effort by Avnet Memec, Ka-Ro electronics and kernel concepts for the Marvell Kirkwood processors.

Resources

The following resources are provided for free use but without any warranty - just "as-is":

• Documentation, currently mainly TK71 related
• Downloads, software (binary and sourcecode
  The software contains parts of µCross. These parts can used free of charge with the WarpComm platform. For a full version of µCross please visit the µCross Website or contact info @ kernelconcepts.de

News

• 2010 August 5
  • New OS software release, see http://www.warpcomm.org/downloads/tk71/20100805/
  • Linux kernel upgrade to 2.6.34
  • Hardware watchdog now supported
  • Hardware crypto engine now supported
  • Added NTFS filesystem (rw) support to kernel
  • New U-Boot version for optional 512MB RAM TK71 modules
• 2010 July 5
  • New Angstrom based rootfs available, see http://www.warpcomm.org/downloads/tk71/20100705/
• 2010 April 19
  • Fixed PCIe support - yeha!
  • Switched bootloader tree - much cleaner now
• 2010 April 01
  • New kernel 2.6.33
  • Fixed JTAG in system debugging issue, so JTAG debugging inside Linux works again

Support

Support is given on various levels of detail for the different parts of the WarpComm platform:

• Software - bootloader, kernel, filesystem and cross-toolchain
  • Free email support: support@warpcomm.org
  • For commercial support offerings and/or purchase of the µCross embedded Linux software package contact info@kernelconcepts.de
• Hardware - TK71, TK71 baseboard, hardware design, custom manufacturing
  • Ka-Ro TK71 homepage
• Kirkwood CPU, about the CPU and its features in general
  • Avnet Memec FAEs - contact marvell@avnet-memec.eu
  • Open-RD forums, good source for general information

To Do

There are still some things in the mainline (clean) Linux kernel that need to be done for complete Kirkwood WarpComm support:

• Time Division Multiplex interface
  Challenging - but surely interesting!
• MPEG Transport Stream Interface
  The Kirkwood has two independent TS interfaces which can be used to stream even HD transport streams - cool feature, no driver yet.
• Security crypto engine
  The Kirkwood implements some security features like some common ciphers in hardware - also a cool feature, no driver yet (beginning is made!).

If you feel interested in those features and would like to support a development project for them, then please contact us at support @ warpcomm.org
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