Re: [microblaze-uclinux] New Digilentinc board

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aurash,

Aurash wrote:
> Alex,
> that board is more prepared for Linux rather than uC-linux (2 x PowerPC 
> processors)
> it's a waste to use uC-Linux in my opinion when the processors can run 
> with 300Mhz and they have MMU

Given the origins and objectives of this board - (hint XUP = Xilinx 
University Program) I think that uClinux on this thing makes as much 
sense, if not more, than on any other .edu oriented board.  Showing 
students a spectrum of embedded Linux, from small soft-CPU (microblaze + 
uClinux) to PPC + regular linux is potentially a very valuable teaching 
exercise.

Of course, maybe I'm just biased :)  I'm also not inclined to think it 
reasonable for educational groups to pay the licensing fees demanded by 
Montavista for an open-source linux kernel distro.   I noticed that Mind 
  have an eval CD in the latest EDK package - let's hope they are more 
willing to work with universities than MontaVista...

OK, that's enough opinion for now :P

John

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