Hi Peter - Well, the good news is that it works, and works well. In my humble opinion, supporting it would be pretty simple, but I completely understand why RHEL is the supported distribution. I would much rather see effort put into polishing up EDK under Linux than in supporting every Linux distro out there. For me, the bottom line was this: do I want to migrate all of other development activities from FC4 to RHEL for the sake of EDK, or try to run EDK under FC4? I tried the latter approach, and now that the Jungo WinDriver v7.1 is out, parallel port debugging works by simply using WinDriver 7.1 and patching the Xilinx XPC4 parport driver. I now have the kernel booting on a Memec 2VP50 eval board using U-Boot as the bootloader. I used the linuxppc-2.4 kernel rsynced from MontaVista. That particular kernel did not have support for U-Boot but it did support the ML300 and a Memec 2VP40/2VP70 board. I had to modify the kernel to accept a board description structure from U-Boot and I added a new board type for my custom hardware. The approach I took was definitely the "roll your own approach", but then again I've done this (Linux board ports) a couple times and I know U-Boot well. Keith
Peter Ryser <peter.ryser at xilinx.com> wrote on 08/18/2005 07:39:21 AM: > > > I am running all of my development tools (EDK, ISE, ELDK, etc...) under > >Fedora Core 4, so I am looking for a publicly accessible kernel source > >tree that best supports the PPC405 in the Virtex II Pro. > > > Keep in mind that EDK and ISE are not "officially" supported on FC4. > Anyway, with EDK, ISE, and ELDK you seem to have all that is needed to > get started with Linux on Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4. > > - Peter > >
