A new kernel image and tcpborphserver for ROACH is available. It detects when 
programming of the FPGA is complete (as opposed to the old scheme which just 
waits a while for programming to complete). So now a progdev command completes 
in a fraction of a second (well, depending on your network/SD card speed).

http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/linux/uImage-fallback-20110303
http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/tcpborphserver/tcpborphserver2-2011-03-03-r3398-fallback

The corr package (along with its katcp wrappers for ROACH interfacing) has also 
been updated and is now hosted on PyPI for easier user installations. Latest 
versions can always be found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/corr 
I'll leave the old corr packages in SVN should you want 'em. corr-0.6.4 onwards 
is no longer dependant on the stats package. The new corr-0.6.5 includes some 
crude functions for controlling the iADC and KATADCs from software, some small 
snap block refinements and bugfixes for correlator systems using XAUI loopback 
(thanks to Sandeep from GMRT for testing). 

If your Linux distribution includes dist_utils, you can now just type:
  sudo easy_install corr
and it should resolve all required packages and install everything 
automatically.

otherwise you can always still install manually (of course you will need to 
install the dependancies such as numpy and motplotlib yourself) as follows:
 * wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/corr/corr-0.6.5.tar.gz
 * tar -xzf corr-0.6.4.tar.gz
 * cd corr-0.6.4
 * sudo python setup.py install

Jason


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