Open MSS-II

Welcome to the Open MSS-II miniwiki at wikia. http://scratchpad.wikia.com/index.php?title=Open_MSS-II&action=submit This is the new place where to collect all the MSS-II info in a central place.

=why do we need this mini-wiki?=
 * 1) the forum at http://www.openmss.org/forum/ does not seem to be a reliable place to store info permanently
 * 2) the MSS-II is severely different to the MSS. the MSS-II can more likely compared to the LS-Pro as it also is based on the same dev-board.

look at http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Turbostation to find out how to begin.

=Hardware=

Pictures of the board
http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/uploads/MSS-II/IMAGES/

How to gain serial access
Gaining serial access is easy as the headers are already soldered to the board. TODO: adding Pinout-info(Rx,Tx,GND,VCC) + Picture

What does serial access gain me?
Uboot control, loading other kernels/initrds via tftp =Software=

Analysis of the stock OS
what is installed by default, why is it needed for what?

Prebuilt Binaries and Packages
Currently there is no real place for this.

Cross-Compiling
This is the cross toolchain used to compile for the board: http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/uploads/LS_Pro_temporary/CrossToolchains/CodeSourcery/

Native Compiling
Native compiling means compiling directly on the box itself. Currently no one has created a specific native toolchain for the MSS-II.