> > 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?
You may have to recompile the kernel driver. See http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_ans_display.jsp?iLanguageID=1&iCountryID=1&getPagePath=22648 regards, koen _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
