By the way, did anyone report the glibc/xst problem that we all experienced a few months ago to Xilinx? It would be nice to be able to get that fixed. I don't know if Srikanth or Wolfgang reported it.
John > hi tom, > > beware of non-xilinx supported operating systems. > they can waste a lot of your time. > > we've experience twisted and frustrating behavior with non-xilinx > supported > operating systems. in one case, our design compiled without any error > or warning messages, but the FFT didn't produce the correct results. > we eventually figured out that small FFT's worked, but large FFT's didn't > work. > we had no idea why. > xilinx wouldn't answer our questions because they said we were using a > non-supported operating system. > when we switched to a xilinx supported operating system, everything > worked. > we still don't know why this problem was related to the operating system > we were using. > > best wishes, > > dan > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Tom Kuiper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02/17/2012 11:49 AM, John Ford wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering about the value of the workshop videos. Each year's >>> workshop has been recorded and posted to the internet for the benefit >>> of >>> all mankind. (OK. Maybe a slight exaggeration!) In any case it is a >>> lot >>> of work for someone, and I just wonder how many people have looked at >>> these videos (or the presentation PDFs). >>> >>> Let me know what you think... >>> >> Hi John! >> >> I'm just about to start what Laura just did, except, bravely, on a >> Debian >> host. (I had the Xilinx tools working under Debian years ago, >> pre-ROACH.) >> Still, I think she's nailed the problem. So, I'll be following some of >> the >> tutorials. >> >> I guess by now it might be good to have some guidance as to which >> tutorials to follow to achieve a particular goal. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tom >> >> >
