Peter Ryser wrote: >> btw Peter, I've been moaning about the weird interrupt behaviour of >> the SysACE on e.g. the Memec board for some time (see archives for >> various other people's experiences too) - and I've spoken to several >> folks at Xilinx without getting very far. If there's a fundamental >> problem then it probably makes sense for us to help get it fixed. >> > Hmm, I'm not aware of any interrupt problems with System ACE CF. For > Linux it works for a long time unchanged as published in the > linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.4 repositories. I'm operating my own > web and mail server on a V2P based board using a 1GB MicroDrive through > System ACE CF as the root and swap filesystems. The system is up and > running for months now. No special tricks or hacks just a > straight-forward EDK FPGA design with a MVL kernel.
The SystemACE in the linuxppc-2.4 kernel works fine for me on our JSE board. We keep a lightly used ext3 partition for root, and a FAT partition in the beginning for boot and ACE files. The Xilinx HAL, though ugly as sin, has not given us trouble. We use a PPC405GPr with the SystemACE connected to a peripheral bus. No VIIPro here. this is surely different from the ML300, yet it works. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
