Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Hi Everyone! Im new, let me introduce myself...

[John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>]

jlerhun wrote:

> XPS (Xilinx Platform studio) is the graphical front end for all EDK tools.
> But you can still use everything in text mode as in MDK ;-)

This is how I currently work - I use XPS to generate the "shell" of my 
hardware (and makefiles, MHS etc), then work almost exclusively on the 
command line after that.

> I'm trying to put mbvanillia on a discontinued Insight SpartanII-150 PCI 
> board, thanks to a collegue who lets me use it at home. Maybe a little 
> bit small, but 8MB of SDRAM and a home-made serial port should be enough 
> to see a shell.

Sounds good - you could potentially run PPP over the serial line to get 
basic tcp/ip connectivity.  I know of people doing this on the Coldfire 
uclinux platform.

Some flash might be nice, or at least a way of getting the OS and 
filesys image into the SRAM.  Perhaps the PCI interface is fast enough 
that you can do it at startup without too much pain.

> Back to the early days of computing, when 64kB was the main memory of a 
> standard computer ! But now, you have 32 bits RISC and a lot more MHz :-)

I grew up on the Sinclair Spectrum, 32KB RAM and a 4 MHz Z80! :)  One of 
these days I'll do a Spectrum-on-chip, just for fun and old time's sake. 
  I think someone's already made a start on it actually.

In fact probably easier to compile an existing linux-based spectrum 
emulator under uclinux and run it on the microblaze...  Crazy stuff! :-)

Cheers,

John


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