[microblaze-uclinux] Demo package update

[John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>]

Hi everyone,

Well the beta testers have done some good work on the demo package, 
still a few issues with the Memec revision 3 boards that I'm trying to 
iron out, but everything should be ready for Monday morning (Australian 
time).

Some cool features of the demo include:

Ability to login a second terminal session, so you can try out 
multi-user processing on your FPGA!

An old unix text-based adventure game (advent4) is included in the 
distribution so you can waste some time playing instead of working :)

A demo that shows how on-chip-peripherals can be intergrated into the 
linux kernel - there's a device called /dev/gpio that controls an OPB 
GPIO core, which is connected to the LEDs and switches.  The device is 
controlled by standard file system IO calls.  A demo program lets you 
play with this from the shell.

If anyone has a different board then let me know and I'll see about 
assisting a port of the demo hardware.  It should be simple as long as 
your board has similar external resources to the V2MB1000 boards from 
Insight/Memec.

Regards,

John




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