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RE: [microblaze-uclinux] Nu-Horizons Spartan3 Dev Board Support
Patrick,
Could you send me the tar file you mention, below, please?
Thanks,
David Banas
Field Applications Engineer
Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
2070 Ringwood Avenue
San Jose, CA 95131
(408)434-0800 - office
(415)846-5837 - cell
http://www.nuhorizons.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au [mailto:owner-microblaze-
> uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au] On Behalf Of Patrick Robin
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Nu-Horizons Spartan3 Dev Board Support
>
>
> I did port uClinux to this NuHorizons board last summer. My board also
> had
> the missing flash signal which I added according to NuHorizons
> instructions.
>
> Everything worked just by changing the config files except for the flash.
> I
> got the flash working by making very small changes to the c code in one
> file. I then was able to mount file systems on the flash. Everything
> worked
> fine.
>
> I gave a tar file to my NuHorizons/Xilinx Engineer reps in Montreal and we
> got it working on their identical board without any changes. They even
> demoed it internaly to Xilinx and NuHorizons I believe.
>
> They new NuHorizons board is much better in term of feature than the one
> I
> have. But all in all they are very good boards for the low price. Like
> any
> new board, you may have to play with it a bit if some chips do not play
> well
> with uClinux initialy. The Flash is often a problem since there are so
> many
> different variations/implementations.
>
> Patrick Robin
> http://atelierrobin.tripod.com
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> >From: Edmond Coté <edmond.cote@gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
> >To: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
> >Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Nu-Horizons Spartan3 Dev Board Support
> >Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:37:06 -0500
> >
> >Hi John,
> >
> >Could I take you up on this offer?.. I'm looking to getting something
> >up and running for this weekend.. or should I say *try* (see below)
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Edmond
> >
> >--
> >
> >Ryan: I would strongly suggest *against* purchasing from NuH.
> >
> >I purchased that exact board when it was selling for 164$, probably on
> >liquidation since it was found that the Rev.2 board had a
> >manufacturing defect. As such, my flash memory is unusable (according
> >to the EDK memory test) even after re-routing a jumper wire and
> >hacking at configuration files. I may also add, that there is no
> >mention of this problem anywhere on NuH's website. How's that for
> >customer care!?
> >
> >To further my story, I made an RMA request 1-2 weeks ago, and have
> >never heard back from them. (my contact was wloveland@nuhorizons.com
> >btw).
> >
> >What else can I say, the "base system builder" file posted on their
> >website is also broken (invalid LOC constraints), the sample code
> >included with the board is garbage and their documentation is
> >worthless.
> >
> >Sorry for the rant, take it as you will, but may I suggest purchasing
> >directly from Xilinx, or from Xess perhaps.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:07:54 +1000, John Williams
> ><jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> > > Hi Ryan,
> > >
> > > supernaut wrote:
> > > > I'm looking into buying the NuHorizons Spartan3 Development board
> > > > (P/N: HW-AFX-SP3-400-DB) and I'm curious whether or not anyone has
> had
> > > > any success porting uClinux to it. The primary purpose of
> purchasing
> > > > this particular board is to deploy and utilize microblaze-uClinux,
> so
> >it
> > > > is rather important to me to hear any potential success stories that
> > > > anyone might have.
> > > >
> > > > I've also seen one prior posting to this mailing-list regarding a
> >port
> > > > in the works
> > > >
> >(http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~listarch/microblaze-
> uclinux/archive/2005/02/msg00008.html)
> > >
> > > Apart from the absence of ethernet, this board will run uclinux just
> > > fine. If you can get a reference hardware platform that works,
> > > utilising the SDRAM and uartlite, I'll use autoconfig wto make you a
> > > kernel. It will take about 15 minutes :)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > John
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