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From: ramesh on 25 Jan 2006 02:16 Hi All, Iam new to xilinx platfrom. I was trying to port open source linux on Ml403 board. i tried to follow the instructions in the below link. http://www.klingauf.de/v2p/index.phtml i was getting errors when i was running bZimage. the .elf file was not getting created. Is there an alternative way of acheiving my goal. Kindly suggest. Thanks in advance. Ramesh
From: Anonymous on 25 Jan 2006 08:24 Doesn't the ml403 come with a Linux distribution? Why would you need to port anything? "ramesh" <ramesh(a)embeyond.com> wrote in message news:1138173378.715130.86900(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Hi All, > Iam new to xilinx platfrom. > > I was trying to port open source linux on Ml403 board. i tried to > follow the instructions in the below link. > http://www.klingauf.de/v2p/index.phtml > i was getting errors when i was running bZimage. the .elf file was not > getting created. > > Is there an alternative way of acheiving my goal. > Kindly suggest. > Thanks in advance. > > Ramesh >
From: fpga_toys on 25 Jan 2006 12:11 ramesh wrote: > Hi All, > Iam new to xilinx platfrom. > > I was trying to port open source linux on Ml403 board. i tried to I should probably note that Xilinx leaches a hell of a lot of value off open source by using Linux as a host platform for it's tools, GCC as the main production compiler for PPC core software, GNU for the libraries for PPC, and Linux in several forms as host operating systems for it's product offerings. It's probably worth writing Austin, Peter, and the other regular usenet posters from Xilinx and making it clear just how much Xilinx benefits from open source, the Xilinx market created by open source, and the developers which frequently volunteer their time supporting Xilinx open source use. And then suggest that they take their thumb off the JHDLBits project, and start doing a better job of contributing back to the open source community. If that isn't enough to get their attention, maybe switching design wins to Altera and letting Xilinx sales know why. The JHDLBits team boldly set out to provide open source Xilinx tools before getting shut down by Xilinx. References are a dead sourceforge project, and some papers: http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/poetter_2004_ERSA04_jhdlbits.pdf http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/poetter_2004_FPL04_jhdlbits.pdf Plus see the teams thesis work: http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/ The wire data base, router, fpga simulator, and the main JHDLBits tools are a valuable reconfigurable computing resource for the open source community ... many hours of effort by this team squashed by Xilinx
From: Peter Ryser on 25 Jan 2006 14:33 Hi Ramesh, you might want to have a look at the following documents: - XAPP765 (http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp765.pdf). This document describes on how to get started with EDK and the ML300 board. The approach for the ML403 board is the same - UG080, pg. 37 (http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/userguides/ug082.pdf). This document contains a brief description on how to rebuild the Linux kernel for the ML403 board. Start with rebuilding the reference design and Linux kernel for the ML403 board. All the necessary information can be found in the documents above and on http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml403/reference_designs.htm The Xilinx software drivers for the Linux peripherals have been released into the open source repository for the Linux PPC 2.4 kernel tree. This tree is picked up by various Linux distributions. Further, the MLD technology in EDK helps you to customize the Linux kernel for your particular hardware design. At this time I recommend staying with the 2.4 Linux kernel as the support for ML300 (and the ML403) in the 2.6 kernel is very basic (UART only). Another good source of information is the linuxppc-embedded mailing list (see http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo). The latest developments wrt Linux kernel for the MLxxx boards is discussed there. - Peter ramesh wrote: > Hi All, > Iam new to xilinx platfrom. > > I was trying to port open source linux on Ml403 board. i tried to > follow the instructions in the below link. > http://www.klingauf.de/v2p/index.phtml > i was getting errors when i was running bZimage. the .elf file was not > getting created. > > Is there an alternative way of acheiving my goal. > Kindly suggest. > Thanks in advance. > > Ramesh >
From: Ed McGettigan on 25 Jan 2006 19:20
fpga_toys(a)yahoo.com wrote: > I should probably note that Xilinx leaches a hell of a lot of value off > open source by using Linux as a host platform for it's tools, GCC as > the main production compiler for PPC core software, GNU for the > libraries for PPC, and Linux in several forms as host operating systems > for it's product offerings. > > It's probably worth writing Austin, Peter, and the other regular usenet > posters from Xilinx and making it clear just how much Xilinx benefits > from open source, the Xilinx market created by open source, and the > developers which frequently volunteer their time supporting Xilinx open > source use. > I take umbrage to your assertion that Xilinx is a leach and doesn't contribute back to the open source communities. Xilinx has been a contributing Corporate Patron of Free Software Foundation for many years now https://www.fsf.org/donate/patron/index_html funding many open source projects through the FSF with our donations. In addition we funded, supported and developed the Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4 PowerPC405 ports that are the parent post of this thread and then push for their release into the official Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x PowerPC trees so that everyone will have access to them easily. Ed McGettigan -- Xilinx Inc. |