Re: [microblaze-uclinux] minimum memory neededd for the kernel andmblaze

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Daniel,

Brockhaus, Daniel wrote:

> I am a college student and for my diploma thesis I want to put an OS 
> into a FPGA (virtex II pro) from Xilinx.
> 
> The OS should be an open source project and the footprint has to be less 
> then 500 Kbytes ROM and 500 Kbytes RAM
> 
> Do I have a chance to get the µCLinux Kernel in my Board? Or is it 
> impossible?  

It's probably possible, but it will be tight.  You'll also need to do 
some fairly simple, but non-standard memory saving tricks.

Is the memory restriction physical (e.g. you already have the board, and 
that's how much memory it has) or is that a guide/requirement from your 
academic supervisor?

If it's a physical/board limitation, then you might have a little bit of 
trouble squeezing it in - or at least if you do fit it, there won't be 
much memory left to do something useful.  However, still could be a good 
experiment.

If it's just a guide, then I suggest you speak to your supervisor, 
explain that you want to do uClinux on the MicroBlaze, and that you may 
require more than a meg but that you'll be working hard to squeeze it 
down :)

Regards,

John

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