From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23BFE01507 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12002 invoked by uid 1003); 7 Sep 2012 11:22:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.105?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.24.25) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 7 Sep 2012 11:22:35 -0000 Message-ID: <5049D8FA.8050600@balister.org> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:22:34 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Ashfield References: <12E1ABCF-B181-4763-88A6-5B7E51758231@gmail.com> <50491060.5030300@balister.org> <50492183.7030101@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <50492183.7030101@windriver.com> 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: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:22:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/06/2012 06:19 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > 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/ Before creating the layer I checked: http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/LayerIndex This is where layer information is collected. If a layer is not listed here, yo can expect namespace collisions. Philip > > Cheers, > > Bruce > >> >> Philip >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > >