Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest txrx.bin files?

[Jason Abele]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:44:02PM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 02:22 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:02 -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Where are the latest txrx.bin files that support WBX?
> >>     
> > The WBX code for USRP2 has not been merged yet into the master branch.
> > After that happens, I will post the txrx_wbx.bin file in the usual
> > place.  Prior to that, you can hand compile one by using the developer
> > branch 'wip/wbx_usrp2' in:
> >
> > git://gnuradio.org/jabele
> >
> > (Yes, the WBX board will require a special firmware file, txrx_wbx.bin,
> > that only supports the WBX and Basic/LF TX and RX boards.  This is due
> > to space constraints.)
> >
> > Johnathan
> >
> >
> >   
> OK, I clearly need some guidance with "git".
> 
> I did a git clone on git://gnuradio.org/jabele   but the resulting
> source tree doesn't appear to have
>   the wbx support in it.  I did a "git checkout wbx_usrp2", but that
> didn't seem to update any files,
>   but seemed to indicate that I'd switched to that branch.
> 
> I find git to be very, well, git-ish.   I'm willing to be hit upside the
> head with a clue-by-four.
> 
> I have the microblaze compiler, and it appears to have generated a
> txrx.bin file, but there's not even
>   a *hint* of WBX support in the source tree I have.

You are almost there from the sounds of it.  If you look where the
txrx.bin was created (usrp2/firmware/apps/), you should find
txrx_wbx.bin

also, you can check that the source code is in:
usrp2/firmware/lib/db_wbx.c
usrp2/firmware/lib/db_init_wbx.c

Jason