Building the mbvanilla hardware target

The following instructions assume use of the standard mbvanilla_net target.

1. Unzip the design files into a directory, say ~/MicroBlaze/mbvanilla_net
    
2. Change to the project directory, and simply type
   
   $ make init_bram
   
   This may take some time, depending upon the speed and memory capacity of your build system. 
    
3. The result should be a file called download.bit in the "implementation" directory.  Now you have a couple of options.  Simplest is to execute
   
   $ make download
   
   to download the configuration to the board.  However, you'll need to repeat this each time you run the kernel, which gets a bit boring. 
    
4. To automatically create and download a PROM file, simply run "make download_prom".  The FPGA will be automatically configured with the mbvanilla_net hardware each time it is powered up.

If you have built the kernel, you are now ready to download it to the board and execute it.