thanks Gerhard .. I'll refresh from git and try again this evening, and
will report back with the results

john


On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 13:25 Gerhard Sittig <gerhard.sit...@gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
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