[microblaze-uclinux] Peripherals

[Peter Ryser <Peter.Ryser@xilinx.com>]

John,

many of the Xilinx peripherals are already integrated into the Linux source
tree for PowerPC. This source tree is available from
http://www.penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml (see linuxppc_2_4_devel).

At the moment the peripherals have a pre-selected configuration. However, we
are working on adding features to EDK to be able to generate a BSP that plugs
into the Linux kernel tree, i.e. replaces the Xilinx specific device drivers
with the up-to-date ones from EDK.

Without being to familiar with uClinux I'd say that your work will benefit
immediately from this approach, i.e. that you at least should be able to
apply the uClinux patch to the above kernel tree.

- Peter


>   Further, there is a general desire to integrate or at least
> interoperate the kernel configuration process with the Xilinx platform
> generation tools.