Xilinx IP core drivers for RTEMS- diff attached

[Robert S. Grimes]

Sounds fine to me.

At this point in time, I am ready to help with the xilinx_hardemac
driver; I personally have no real interest in the soft flavor.  I would
be happy to lead, follow, or get out of the way  :-P , whatever works
best.  I am still rather new to RTEMS, but that's going to change in the
next few months...  What I'm really driving at is that I'd like to
contribute to what you guys are doing, in whatever way is best.

That said, we should come to consensus on the hardware configuration for
the xilinx_hardemac driver development.  As I mentioned in an earlier
email, there are essentially two different approaches we can take with
the hard temac.

   1. http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp807.pdf - minimalist
      approach (V4 emac)
   2. http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp941.pdf - full-featured
      approach (plb_temac and hard_temac)

I have successfully used the "full-featured" approach from within the
Xilinx XPS, but it is a bit of a resource hog; on the ml403's V4FX12, it
uses about 33% of slice FF, 60% of slices, and 45% of the 4-input LUT. 
This is not really a problem for my application (they're giving me
FX60s!), it does seems excessive, especially for people wanting to use
the lower cost ml403 boards. I could be talked into going with the
minimalist approach, but that presents some non-trivial rework on my end
to hook the emac up within XPS.

What have you been using, Greg?  How do you feel about this, Keith?  Am
I correct in trying to build a consensus here?

FYI, I am working on a system with three custom Virtex-4 FX-based
processors interconnected via Ethernet, with actual hardware coming
on-line in January; in the meantime, I have several Xilinx ml403 boards
available for use.

Thanks, and take care,
-Bob

gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
> Keith Robertson writes:
>  > 
>  > new libcpu dir: ppc405 (so we can easy follow differences to the 403)
>  > new libbsp dir: virtex_shared
>  > new emac name : xilinx_softemac (possibly/probably in libchip)
>  > new hardemac  : xilinx_hardemac (when it's written.  probably in bsp.  I 
>  > don't know of any xilinx plans to include the hardemac in anything other 
>  > than the virtex).
>  > 
>
> This would work for me.
>
> Greg
>
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