> On 06-07-20 20:29 +0100, David Bisset wrote:
>>> This would benefit from a bit of info for Balloon3 and on the LEDs from
>>> someone who knows.
>> Currently Nick and I are concentrating on debugging L3. There has been
>> considerable progress in the last week but we need to resolve as many issues
>> as we can before the 20 prototypes need filling with code (mid next week).
> 
> Right-ho.
> 
>>> We have a good selection of software people from TCL, Aleph One and Guralp
>>> on the IRC channel but we could really do with some hardware people hanging
>>> out there too, and someone from the Eng. dept would no doubt find it useful
>>> as well.
> 
>> While this sounds good, Nick and I found the traffic load too high 
> 
This is all true. I have also mostly been available the balloon IRC but my 
input has been mainly bootldr based. I agree that traffic is frantic/absent 
and shouldn't put off being present. However, nearly all the L3 natter has 
been really only for me and David trying to get infrastructure working.

> Hmm, it is generally pretty low-traffic. Sometime no-one says anything for
> days. Perhaps you popped in at a busy time?
> 
>> and the
>> relevance to getting L3 off the ground low. So we have decamped back to the
>> TCL IRC since we are in almost constant communication as hardware and
>> software issues are thrashed out... Once the 20 L3 boards are out there then
>> it will make sense for the Balloonboard IRC to carry L3 traffic as well and
>> doubtless we will "drop-in" more often.
> 
> Well, it seems to me that L3 stuff is highly relevant on #balloon - so it
> would be better for all if your discussions were on the oftc#balloon channel
> rather than having separate L2 and L3 channels. Of course it is entirely up
> to you what you do, but this seems to me to be more of the balkanisation we
> have all agreed has been a problem to date. (this does explain why we have
> seen no L3 activity recently :-)
> 
> Where is the TCL IRC channel? At least I can come to yours if you don't want
> to come to ours :-)
> 
The TCL channel is really for TCL dev and not for general balloonacy.

>>> Can someone send me a schematic of Balloon3 yet? 
>> I've currently taken the decision not to do this right now, 
> 
> OK - I leave it to you to prioritise such things. 
>  
>> ChrisJ's docs on the SolidLights website give ample documentation of
>> connectors etc and the architecture diagrams I prepared give a good overview
>> of the board. 
> 
> I know of a reset architecture pdf - are there others? Everything on
> solidlights that I know of: http://solidlights.co.uk/balloon/balloon3.html
> seems to be on http://balloonboard.org/hardware/300/index.html
> so hopefully we are uptodate. Chris - I see there are some video interface
> files there. Shall I move those onto balloonboard.org and then maybe that
> dir should disappear or point at bb.org (to remind you to put stuff on
> bb.org rather than on solidlights.co.uk)?
> 
> Sorry if I sound like I'm trying to order everyone about, but a certain
> amount of cajoling seems to be in order to try and keep the process of
> centralising info moving inwards rather than outwards. 
> 
> Wookey