Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Thank You Every, Great Job!

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

John Beeckler wrote:
> I'm starting work on a video game console
> based on a Xilinx FPGA with the MicroBlaze.

sounds like fun!  Can you say any more about the board, and/or the project?

>   Although I don't have the development board yet,
> yesterday I got the uBlaze toolchain, and compiled the
> kernel and distro with NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER.  To me
> this is amazing, and I feel like it's a good sign that
> I'll get uCLinux on my system without any fatal
> problems.  

Glad to hear it built without problems.  There's a new version of 
uClinux-dist that will be rolled into CVS in the next week or so, on the 
microblaze side it has a number of bug fixes and so on.

> Thank you to all those involved in the
> uBlaze port of uCLinux.  Am I correct is thinking that
> it will not be too big of a problem to adapt the
> software from the board you are using to my system?

The easiest approach is probably to hack the mbvanilla_net target to get 
  it working on your chosen dev board.  By keeping the address map etc 
as similar as possible, it minimises the changes necessary in the 
kernel.  Having said that, most of those changes are confined to the 
file linux/include/asm-microblaze/xparameters.h, so it really shouldn't 
be too difficult.

A few people have done successful board ports, just ask your questions 
and report your progress here, and I'm sure you'll get some help :)

Cheers,

John

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