This kernel includes the drivers for both -XX (CS5535) and -XXL (CS5536) versions. The timing problem during CS5536 initialisation appears to have returned so that mod is back in along with the one below to enable the IDE interface.
Towards the end of the startup sequence I'm seeing some delay with messages about floppy drives....
........ floppy0: no floppy controllers found work still pending Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found work still pending Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found .......
...repeated a number of times. I don't know why this happens and I haven't spent much time looking into it. It does increase the startup time but otherwise doesn't appear to affect the system.
| Download the kernel | : | vmlinuzSX0_82 |
| Download the .config file | : | configSX0_82 |
As part of my revisit to the SX0 I built a new Tiny Core Linux kernel for the -02L version. The timing problem during initialisation that existed in the past no longer exists so all I ended up doing were two small modifications:
To do (2) find the function cs5536_init_one() in the file drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c and add the two lines shown:
.......
if (use_msr)
printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME ": Using MSR regs instead of PCI\n");
cs5536_read(dev, CFG, &cfg);
cfg |= IDE_CFG_CHANEN; <<---ADD
cs5536_write(dev, CFG, cfg); <<---ADD
if ((cfg & IDE_CFG_CHANEN) == 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME ": disabled by BIOS\n");
.......
| Download the kernel | : | vmlinuzSX0_72 |
| Download the .config file | : | configSX0_72 |
You could further optimise the kernel, but my experience is that the more you remove the more likely it is that something breaks so I ended up leaving the rest alone.
I have a custom kernel for the old and new versions of the SX0. This is relatively straight forward to do and should you wish to do the same the approach I used to build the kernel is documented here.
The kernel was built for Tiny Core 5.2 and should be useable with subsequent minor upgrades that still use the 3.8.13 kernel.
The issues with the Wyse SX0 are:
The former is solved by including the pata_cs5535 driver, whilst the latter is solved by patching the pata_cs5536 driver as documented under the Linux tab.
So the Wyse SX0 kernel on offer has been stripped of all IDE drivers other than the pata_cs5535 and the modified pata_cs5536 driver.
You can always build your own version to match you target hardware. (Exclude the unwanted driver).
The relevant files are:
The kernel : vmlinuzSX0_52 The .config file : configSX0_52 The modified driver : pata_cs5536.c
Any comments? email me. Last update January 2018