Re: [microblaze-uclinux] New Digilentinc board

[Tommy B <gentoo@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Williams wrote:

> 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.
>
First off, John, Yashi and others I love the work you've been doing I've
been lurking for a long time and I'm waiting for the proper opportunity
to jump in. I'm an embedded sw/firmware guy.

Many of those things are very valuable teaching and learning excercies. :)

> 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...
>
Properly biased :)

I've been a core dev working with an open-source community that has
built an entire embedded distro, from the ground up utilizing
OpenEmbedded.  Our build system creates 3rd-party firmware flashable
images for the Linksys NSLU2 network attached storage device.  The
hardware is an IXP420. The wiki is at http://www.nslu2-linux.org.

Another group is attempting to create OpenJTAG tool to be used for
debugging. We've been sytmied with Xilinx Spartan 3 development board
and our lack of FPGA experience.  We need some really simple stuff, but
lack the FPGA skills.

Please let me know what you want as far as a PPC development cross-build
environment.  It propablly pretty easy for me to setup.

> OK, that's enough opinion for now :P
>
> John
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