Hi Laura First off. The official stance taken by CASPER is that we recommend installation on the Xilinx-supported operating systems (SUSE, RedHat etc). These are often clunky to use, but allow us to approach Xilinx if there is a problem. When running on another OS, it is unlikely that Xilinx will help and there is no guarantee that subtle bugs will not appear.
That being said, there are a fair number of people who report successful use of other Linux flavours. The choice (and your appetite for risk) is up to you. Could people who have seen errors introduced by using other Linux flavours please reply to this mail with a short description of the error to give people an indication of the risks they are taking on by going with something different. Laura, please include the error message in case it is something that we can resolve. Regards Andrew On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 14:36 -0800, Laura Vertatschitsch wrote: > Hi guys, first post. > > > We are setting up a machine from scratch. The 2011 tutorials section > seems to indicate the all the machines were set up with Xilinx 11.5 on > machines running 64 bit Ubuntu. Are there instructions on how this > set up was achieved? Everything I read on the wiki seems to say that > deviating from the xilinx-blessed operating systems will result in bad > news. We got everything set up using the latest Ubuntu 11.10, Matlab > 2009a, Xilinx 11.5, by following the LINUX XPS page and introducing > the simple case statement in bee_xps to allow 11.5. We are getting > some errors at the end of the compile of tutorial 1 - but wanted to > check if there was further documentation on the setup that we could > read first. > > > Laura Vertatschitsch > Electrical Engineering > University of Washington
