All the FPGA vendors work about this way. It is the least pain to support multiple OS and release (and manage a difficult package dependency). I have to download a 2.6 GB patch for XP, and 32b Linux as well as 64b Linux, so don't whine. :-) -Shep
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:21 PM, W. Craig Trader <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, it’s downloading; it might even finish before I leave for the day. > Can’t Xilinx find a better way to patch their software than having people > download 2.6 GB files for every release? (Note: this is still better than > the previous WebUpdate, which requires you to manually update every install > via the web, no matter how many installs you have, with each update > > 500MB). > > - Craig - > > > On 9/21/09 1:00 PM, "Shepard Siegel" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Craig, > You will need to go to the download link below and download the 11.3 update > (about 2.6 GB) for lin64. > This is important, but not urgent. > Can you download, install 11.3, and then try to build any version of an > OpenCPI drop that built before. > It would be helpful to know if it "just works"; or "has issues". > When we start delivering new drops for the ML555 board later this week; it > will require this 11.3 update. > -Shep > > 11.3 is available now (released last Wednesday). Unfortunately the > “WebUpdate” utility was not working for all platforms so we removed this > capability (I believe it’s still disabled until we fix it). You can > download a single file and execute this on each machine you are updating. > Let me know if you have any issues. > > > > Downloads <http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.htm> > > > > >
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