Howdy y'all,

I've succeeded in getting the red EZ430 board--that which ships as part
of the RF kits--to work under Linux. To do so requires flashing both
the 24c32 EEPROM and the MSP430f161 of the board with the firmware of
their green-board equivalents.

Flashing only the EEPROM results in a device which works with the
present TUSB3410 kernel driver, but which is incompatible with
gdbproxy. This implies that more than TTY driver issues must be fixed
to make a red board work out of the box.

The articles below describe the process. They might also be of interest
to those of your who've bricked your EZ430 during a firmware upgrade, as
well as to those who wish to write replacement firmware for the device
from scratch.

MSP430 instructions
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2008/05/repurposing-ti-ez430u-part-1.html
EEPROM instructions
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2008/07/repurposing-ti-ez430u-part-2.html

Cheers,
--Travis Goodspeed

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