Re: [microblaze-uclinux] hardware platform

[emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>]

John Williams wrote:
> Welcome to the list :)

Thanks !

[... virtex board ]
> To be honest, I think you probably want other reasons to choose a 
> particular board than just "that's what the port was done on", 
> especially when you're talking about a board costing around US$1000.

You're right. I would consider a Virtex board my choice for ucLinux ...

> There's nothing specific about this board that makes it a "must have" 
> for uclinux- it's just what I had available.

I just thought it would be easier to have the same board for the start ...

> Translating the hardware target (mbvanilla) to work on a different board 
> should be straight forward, as long it has reasonably similar (or 
> better) capabilities (RAM, Flash, RS232, ethernet etc).  Ulitmately 
> having this going on a diverse range of physical platforms will be a 
> good thing to demonstrate.

I have one of my own lying somewhere around, I have to check the 
schematics again. (SpartanII, 300e, with SDRAM, SRAM & FLash)

> Yes - I'm running direct from SRAM for now, haven't got around to using 
> the DDR on the Insight board.  

Do You expect any problems ?

 > The bare kernel requires about 420K, then
> once you add a file system with a couple of utilities, the image grows 
> quite quickly.

I know ;-)

> Running the kernel and application code from flash, and other tricky 
> things are all in the pipeline, but for now it's a matter of priorities, 

So, you still have to download the kernel via RS232 ?

> and my top priority is just to get the thing to a useable state.  It's a 
> bit bogged down at the moment as I'm distracted with some microblaze / 
> mbvanilla issues, but it's still alive and well.  Some major changes 
> will be going into the CVS (cvs.uclinux.org) in the next week or two.

OK.

cheers & thanks for you time,
emanuel

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