Timothy Normand Miller: >On 2/24/08, PcgScrapAddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > We're also trying to move forward on a hardware IDE that will help us >> > with designing hardware pipelines. >> >> >> > People just latch on to something interesting, ...
Some days ago, I purposed software projects for Google SoC which might be valuable to the project, which can be found here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.opengraphics/8227 If developing Linux drivers are what drives you, the BOCHS/emulator one might be the project for you. That would allow us to have a platform on where we could develop drivers and software without having the actual board working. A natural first step would be to download the BOCHS source code and see if it's something you want to work on. From there it should be possible to extend with some PCI device, VGA BIOS and then driver. >> While I am >> partial to doing Linux drivers I also know that sometimes something else >> may need attention to move forward. I'm no guru by any stretch so >> helping you get some working Linux drivers may be a good place for me to >> become intimate with your product and go from there but you may see >> something different. Your call, it is your project. > >A good thing for anyone on this project to do is to get a passing >familiarity with Verilog (there are tutorials pointed to from >www.opengraphics.org), HDL simulation (we mostly use Icarus Verilog), >and waveform viewers (for instance GTKwave). > >Obviously, we need software development, but there are some hardware >things in the critical path, and being familiar with the hardware will >make the software easier to write. As Tim said, we're currently working on the RTL and verilog for the current design. If you want to help out with the hardware on the project, a good place to begin would be the verilog tutorials and some of the RTL code in the repository. The "main()" files of the two chips are located in rtl/oga1/{s3,xp10}/{x3,xp10}_top_level.v And as always, don't be afraid to send stuff to the mailing list if there's something you're wondering about. However, be aware that the latency might differ :) -- Life on the earth might be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun. Kenneth Østby http://langly.org _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
