From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-red-R.bigfish.com (mail-red.bigfish.com [216.148.222.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "*.bigfish.com", Issuer "*.bigfish.com" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8537668029 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:06:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <430F2835.3090302@xilinx.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:33:25 -0700 From: Peter Ryser MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith J Outwater References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Best kernel for Xilinx VirtexII Pro/PPC405 ? List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Good to hear that you got everything working. Just as a note: XAPP542 (http://direct.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp542.pdf) contains a patch for the Linux kernel to make it work together with U-Boot. Does linuxppc-2.4 still accept patches? - Peter Keith J Outwater wrote: >Hi Peter - >Well, the good news is that it works, and works well. In my humble >opinion, supporting it would be pretty simple, but I completely understand >why RHEL is the supported distribution. I would much rather see effort >put into polishing up EDK under Linux than in supporting every Linux >distro out there. >For me, the bottom line was this: do I want to migrate all of other >development activities from FC4 to RHEL for the sake of EDK, or try to run >EDK under FC4? I tried the latter approach, and now that the Jungo >WinDriver v7.1 is out, parallel port debugging works by simply using >WinDriver 7.1 and patching the Xilinx XPC4 parport driver. >I now have the kernel booting on a Memec 2VP50 eval board using U-Boot as >the bootloader. I used the linuxppc-2.4 kernel rsynced from MontaVista. >That particular kernel did not have support for U-Boot but it did support >the ML300 and a Memec 2VP40/2VP70 board. I had to modify the kernel to >accept a board description structure from U-Boot and I added a new board >type for my custom hardware. >The approach I took was definitely the "roll your own approach", but then >again I've done this (Linux board ports) a couple times and I know U-Boot >well. >Keith > >Peter Ryser wrote on 08/18/2005 07:39:21 AM: > > > >>>I am running all of my development tools (EDK, ISE, ELDK, etc...) >>> >>> >under > > >>>Fedora Core 4, so I am looking for a publicly accessible kernel source >>>tree that best supports the PPC405 in the Virtex II Pro. >>> >>> >>> >>Keep in mind that EDK and ISE are not "officially" supported on FC4. >>Anyway, with EDK, ISE, and ELDK you seem to have all that is needed to >>get started with Linux on Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4. >> >>- Peter >> >> >> >> > > > >