On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 21:25 -0500, John D'Ausilio wrote:
>
> Looking back through the archives, I see that nobody had hardware for
> testing LA1010.

I understand that the kingst-la2016 driver is complete and
supports all known models in the series. See the
https://sigrok.org/wiki/Kingst_LA_Series wiki page.

The LA1010 model is listed as untested, but ShouldWork(TM) from
what I understand. It does not have local memory, so cannot
capture to local memory before downloading sample data to the
host. Exclusively supports streaming mode which is constrained
by USB bandwidth. Consider the LA1010 "an LA1016 without RAM".

> I've been working my way through the kingst driver trying to figure
> out what's going on. I've managed to get libsigrok building
> from git and I'm using sigrok-cli to test. It looks like it loads the
> firmware OK, but is having issues talking to the FPGA?

What a coincidence! User Dave Platt just happened to identify and
address an omission in the firmware extraction utility last week.
The vendor software holds firmware blobs in the executable in Qt
resources, which optionally can be compressed, which the tool was
not aware of. Few images were affected, among them LA1010
netlists. The symptom is that sending this netlist to the device
won't take effect (the FPGA does not recognize its format), hence
the register set remains unavailable.

I'd suggest you get a sigrok-utils update and re-run the firmware
extraction utility. Or use an older vendor binary, versions 3.5.x
were tested, while 3.6.0 was not.

https://sigrok.org/gitaction/sigrok-util.git/ce4722e..249b79d
https://sigrok.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1825

Occassionally the vendor assigns previously unseen ID bytes to
more recent models. But these are easy to add after getting
identified.

https://sigrok.org/gitaction/libsigrok.git/0db1b18..e7c7aa1


Guess you will tell here when the Kingst LA1010 works for you. So
that the wiki page can get updated after all models were verified.


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
--
     If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above
             ask your parents or an adult to help you.


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