Project query

[Hesham Almatary]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 21:38, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 12:58 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM suyash singh <suyashsingh234 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > sorry clicked reply instead of "reply all"
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>> > I don't have any boards and experience. What interests me about this project is that microblaze is used in FPGA which are used in a variety of fields like science, medicine and defence. Porting an os to it would be a great contribution
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>> Hi Suyash,
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>> For any BSP/port development project we require students to have
>> access ahead of time to the hardware they would need to successfully
>> complete the project.  So I don't think the microblaze would be a good
>> project idea for you. I hope you can look for some more ideas that
>> might interest you.
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>> Gedare
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>> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:30 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> >> Hello Suyash,
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>> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:07 AM suyash singh <suyashsingh234 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> > Hello,
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>> >> > I am interested in "Port RTEMS to MicroBlaze"
>> >> > https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2902
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>> >> > How do I start understanding the previous work done and understanding what else needs to be done?
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>> >> Hopefully Hesham or Joel will chime in on their effort.
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>> >> Do you have one or more Xilinx FPGA boards that you can use? Do you
>> >> have any experience with Microblaze? If not, what interests you about
>> >> this project?
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> Just to toss some info in. Qemu and gdb both have Microblaze simulation. The Qemu should be close enough to real hardware to be suitable for a complete port.
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> Graham has a repo somewhere with the port in its current state.
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https://github.com/heshamelmatary/rtems-microblaze

> I think this is likely a viable project with the Qemu simulator.
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AFAIR, there were licence issues merging this project which copies some of
Xilinx's drivers/code to RTEMS.


> --joel
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