Re: Any chance to get the Vector CANcardXL working with SocketCAN?

Hey,

I wrote the softing driver because of the need to reuse our
bunch of softing PCMCIA cards.
See my comments below ...

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:52:36PM +0000, Sascha Münzberg wrote:

Hello,

I wonder if I could get the CANcardXL from Vector working with SocketCAN. 
Reading the info for the kernel module 'softing_cs' gave me some hope. 
However, I did not succeed. Here are some details about the hardware:

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Type: CANcardXL
Controller: Phillips SJA 1000 (another small pice of hope, since softing_cs.c 
                                               explicitly lists a 'Vector-CANcard-SJA')
Transceiver: CANcab 251 opto (Highspeed)

wusel:~/# pccardctl ident

Socket 0:
product info: "VECTOR
", "CANcardXL
", "", ""
manfid: 0x02e6, 0x0100
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I found on
http://vector.com/vi_cancardxl_en.html
that the board has an Atmel ARM7 cpu.
The firmware of the softing driver is targeted for Infineon C166 series
of cpu's.
So, first conclusion is: there's no firmware for that device.
You can load the first 2 firmware blobs, but those are just written
in the cards iomem space and read back, without target acknowledge.
That seems to succeed, so at least the same amount of RAM is present there.

I have no idea to even investigate if it could work...

Kind regards,
Kurt