Re: [microblaze-uclinux] mbvanilla_ddr update

[Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, John Williams wrote:

> There are (were?) also some instabilities that sometimes caused the PBD
> (the "schematic-like" system drawings) to get out of sync with the MHS.

This is why I find the EDK to be one of most unpleasant software products
that I use for doing things behind my back - and also why when Xilinx
tried to persuade me I should use it to do everything my response was that
I would get rid of it completely if that were at all possible.

Literally days of wasted time are trivial when modifying hardware designs
and I usually have to close EDK completely after making a single change to
ensure that it will sync the various files - then there is the fact that
saving does not necessarily mean what one might assume it does.

> The moral of the story is that if you try to work both with XPS, and 
> also at the Xygwin command line, you are on track for a world of hurt.

``Welcome to my world of pain''. :-).

> The EDK team were aware of some of these issues, so hopefully EDK6.1 
> will be a bit better in this regard.

Unless they never used the software they must be driven crazy with the
general unreadiness of that prouct to see the light of day.

On a different note I am still on and off looking at this bug in xmbserial
which seems to be related to file open operations and inherited file
descriptors but is kind of hard to explain - sometimes I see it and other
times everything just works normally.

Jon.

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