[partial-reconfig] First post

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

First post to the list - pretty lonely here for now, so don't be afraid 
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Why I'm doing this:  I work in the Embedded Systems Group at the Uni of 
Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.  One of our themes is reconfigurable 
computing, and for the last 12 months I've been developing our Egret 
platform for reconfigurable SoC research and design.

Egret runs uClinux on the Xilinx microblaze processor, and I'm 
interested in partial reconfig for things like dynamically loadable 
peripherals and modules - analogous to loadable kernel modules (like 
device drivers) in Linux.

More info microblaze and uClinux at:
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux

Anyway at the moment I'm just trying to build microblaze systems in the 
partial reconfiguration flow - I've had some small successes, but am 
already hitting the bizarre and unexplained tool behaviours that go with 
this.

I'm hoping this list will (eventually):
(1) provide a venue for us to rant about the tools :-)
(2) become a resource for people working in this area
(3) help to identify and isolate issues, to pass on to the relevant 
people at Xilinx.  They are interested, and will listen if we work 
constructively with them.
(4) Did I mention ranting about the tools? ;-)

Cheers,

John

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