This weekend Toby Churchill kindly hosted a hacking weekend for OpenTAC – myself, Michael Grzeschik, Steve McIntyre and Andy Simpkins got together to bring up the remaining bits of the hardware on the current board revision and get some of the low level tooling like production flashing for the FTDI serial ports on the board up and running. It was a very productive weekend, we verified that everything was working with only few small mods needed for the board . Personally the main thing I worked on was getting most of an initial driver for the EMC1701 written. That was the one component without Linux support and allowed us to verify that the power switching and measurement for the systems under test was working well.

There’s still at least one more board revision and quite a bit of software work to do (I’m hoping to get the EMC1701 upstream for v4.8) but it was great to finally see all the physical components of the system working well and see it managing a system under test, this board revision should support all the software development that’s going to be needed for the final board.

Thanks to all who attended, Pengutronix for sponsoring Michael’s attendance and Toby Churchill for hosting!