On 12/15/06, tsuraan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Once the PCI controller (which is on the Lattice fpga) is there. We
can programming the main fpga prom anywhere we want. The Xilinx tools
uses a JTAG cable to problem it.
We might be able to reprogram the lattice prom too but if anything
goes wrong, then you need a JTAG cable and proper software to
reprogram it.
Andy
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