Re: GSoC participation

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 05/04/2010 03:45 PM, Adrian Alonso wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Via the Linux Foundation and Grant L. mentoring help, I will be working on
> OE to
> improve xilinx platforms support and adding Microblaze arch support;

I have an ml403 here I can test stuff on. I don't have access to the EDK 
though :(

This looks like a really good project! Thanks for doing this work.

Philip

>
> Our Gsoc work aims tree areas
> 1. Support most xilinx target platforms
> 2. Add microblaze arch support
> 3. Improve software/hardware co-design work flow
>
> Over the lasts moths I've been working on xilinx ml507 board support
> to the point that been able to run xfce46 in this platform, some patches
> are still queued in oe mailing list,  and we want to extend this
> improvements
> to other xilinx boards. Some descriptions of my work can be found at my blog
> [1].
>
> I already start with microblaze support [2], an encounter that I will
> be fighting
> with autotools hell this summer :); Running `bitbake task-base` it reachs
> the point
> to start cross-compiling and it fails due that config scripts don't have
> target
> definitions for microblaze, see error log at [3];forgive my autotools lack
> of expertise
> but where do I need to look to add target information for microblaze.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> [1] http://aalonso.wordpress.com
> [2] http://www.gitorious.org/oe-microblaze
> [3] http://pastebin.com/DpZFsCgb
>