From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1F4E01430 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q86MJn33021290 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bruce-ashfields-macbook.local (128.224.22.66) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.309.2; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:19:48 -0700 Message-ID: <50492183.7030101@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:19:47 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philip Balister References: <12E1ABCF-B181-4763-88A6-5B7E51758231@gmail.com> <50491060.5030300@balister.org> In-Reply-To: <50491060.5030300@balister.org> Cc: Yocto Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: any success with spartan6-lx9mb? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:20:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12-09-06 5:06 PM, Philip Balister wrote: > On 09/06/2012 04:11 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: >> Hi Elvis, >> >> Thanks so much for taking a look at my email! I've read through lots >> of this mailing list's history and noticed all your meta-xilinx work >> in the past and was hoping I could pique your interest :-) >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Elvis Dowson >> wrote: >>> Can you please list which version of the Xilinx ISE tools you are >>> using? e.g. 12.4, 14.1, 14.2 ? >> >> I have 14.2 installed on my Linux machine at home. >> >>> Could you also please list the Xilinx development board that you are >>> using? e.g. SP601 (Spartan6) ? >> >> I have been (slowly) teaching myself VHDL and working with a Papilio >> board from Gadget Factory. Are you familiar with them? They have a >> Spartan 3E on them. >> >> http://papilio.cc/ >> >>> Let me know what you ISE development tool configuration and development >>> board is, and I'll see if I can divert a bit from target platform, >>> and try to >>> explore getting the toolchain to build for the Microblaze processor. >> >> It is my understanding that Microblaze won't fit or work with the >> Spartan 3E (?). However, the guy who makes the Papilio board, Jack >> Gassett, is currently working on his latest board called the "Papilio >> Plus". The Plus is not yet out, although prototypes are available: >> >> http://forum.gadgetfactory.net/index.php?/topic/1280-papilio-plus-prototypes-available-for-8499-in-the-store/ >> >> >> The Plus will feature a Spartan 6 LX9, which, I believe, can support >> the Microblaze. >> >> In a comment on the All Programmable Planet blog about a month ago, >> Jack bemoans how easy it used to be to get Linux up and running on a >> Spartan 3E devel board using what has now become PetaLinux. The >> problem is that PetaLinux is now a commercial product and not readily >> available to the DIY market: >> >> http://www.programmableplanet.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=252509&piddl_msgid=717514#msg_717514 >> >> >> When I noticed the meta-xilinx layer had support for the Spartan 6 LX9 >> I was really hoping to surprise Jack by testing it out and providing >> instructions for creating a filesystem he could use as part of his >> work on the Plus. Unfortunately my attempts fell flat. I even tried >> using denzil-7.0.1 but encountered the same problems. >> >> Seeing how soft processors within programmable logic seems to be >> gaining in popularity, I thought it would be a great niche to get >> into. If the Yocto Project could be used to create images for the >> Microblaze or even the Picoblaze processors I think it would help fill >> a void which is quickly expanding. Also, if support could be added to >> meta-xilinx to support Jack's Papilio boards it would help introduce >> the DIY community to the Yocto Project. >> >>> I've got the following boards with me: >>> - Xilinx ML507 (Virtex 5 FX70T with PowerPC 440) >>> - Xilinx SP601 (Spartan 6) >>> - Xilinx Zynq (ARM Cortex A-9) >> >> Once I get more into the VHDL I'll probably end up getting a Zynq >> myself too; talk about combining the best of both worlds :-) > > Speaking of zynq, I have a simple BSP here for the zc702 board: > > https://github.com/balister/meta-zynq We have a namespace collision, there is also: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-zynq/ Cheers, Bruce > > Philip > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto