On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I have not already used their WebPack for Linux, but I am sure it > > works. > > I use WebPack for Linux, it works just fine. Although, I don't use > any of their programming cables.
Don't touch their drivers with a barge pole.. use these: http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/ I've successfully used a "Prog2" clone cable (parallel port - slow), Platform cable USB, and Platform cable USB II. (The latter two USB programmers are much much faster, but rather expensive!) Since ISE version 10.1, their software supports a libusb based driver natively. For 10.1, you need to set the environment variable: XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB=1 For 11.1, the libusb based driver is the default. In either case, if you want to use the parallel port programming cables without the evil kernel drivers, use the LD_PRELOAD library at the above link. Oh.. my first impressions of 11.1 is that is a pile of cra*. Segfaults all the time, and with the newer Qt / theme their using, the GUI seems more cluttered, less compact. Schematic format is now XML based. I can't think it is related, but the tools are _very_ slow doing even simple tasks like opening and saving schematics. I only upgraded to 11.1 because of a nasty programming bug (segfault) in 10.1 programming an SPI flash via IMPACT. 11.1 introduces new bugs in other aspects of the process though! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
