> Billy Mallard wrote: >>> I'm still investigating the 11.x flow on Linux. It's not ready for >>> prime-time yet: I sometimes have Matlab disappearing on me, compiles >>> that sometimes take significantly longer (22hrs), ridiculous memory >>> usage (over 16GB) etc etc. >> >> my experience has been the exact opposite of what Jason is describing. > > Fwiw, i've been running the toolflow under Debian. I think Jason has > only tested under CentOS. Neither of these is supported by Xilinx, so > we're in the process of switching our toolflow servers to Red Hat. > > In fact, RHEL5 is what we started officially recommending in February: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01228.html > > I'd strongly recommend trying Red Hat.
FWIW, I found the same thing as Billy, that is, a large design utterly fails to build on Windows as it runs out of memory. We run Red Hat here, and the tools are pretty stable once we got it all figured out (thanks to all at casper!) There are a few differences and gotchas between the linux and windows versions. One is the the case sensitivity. Another is that you can't install xilinx tools using a symbolic link. This annoyed our sysadmin immensely, as it complicates any upgrade process. In fact, our version 10.1 tools are pretty stable on Windows for smaller designs. John > > Billy >
