This might be the way to go with things - VMWare player is available free of charge for many platforms (it even works well with Gentoo linux, which can't be said for Xilinx tools). Since OpenSolaris is available on a rather free license, it should be possible to make a VMWare image of a Solaris installation with Xilinx tools already installed, and maybe even the OGA (right?) source code checked out and loaded in the Xilinx tools. That could be distributed on the OGP page for any interested devs. I'll have a look at trying to make such a thing when I get off work tonight.
Ok, so that's just not going to work. In addition to the fact that the free xilinx tools (webpack) are not redistributable, they don't even exist for Solaris. Xilinx Foundation is the only thing they offer for Solaris, and that's not terribly cheap. Xilinx Webpack is only available for RHEL, which is not readily available. CentOS and other RHEL clones exist, but they do not seem to use the exact same kernels, since I was never able to get the (binary-only) Webpack kernel driver to load. The kernel driver is required to do any actual programming of any hardware, so without that you just have synthesis tools. I never could figure out how to program an FPGA from linux... So, it would probably be possible to put together a gentoo VMWare player image with all the OGP recommended software on it and distribute that, but it looks like programming the card will require Windows. Is that correct? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
