Xilinx IP core drivers for RTEMS- Keith Robertson still around?

D. Peter Siddons siddons at bnl.gov
Wed Nov 8 15:51:04 UTC 2006


I'm interested in bringing up RTEMS on the PPC in a Memec XC4FX12 board. 
Has anyone done that? I'd appreciate getting hold of anything close to 
try and modify. Did anything get deposited anywhere after this email 
thread? I couldn't see anything on CVS.
Thanks,
Pete.


Robert S. Grimes wrote:
> Consider yourself kicked - with all due respect, of course!
> 
> Ed Sutter wrote:
>> Great.
>> I have code examples for hooking up RTEMS to uMon, plus I've hooked
>> up TFS to RTEMS FS also.  It hasn't been heavily tested, but if you
>> think you can use it lemme know and I'll try to find it.
>> Maybe that will *finally* kick me in the butt enough to put this
>> info on the RTEMS Wiki also.
>> Ed
>>
>> Robert S. Grimes wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ed,
>>>
>>> Oh, yeah - you did - works great, too!
>>>
>>> -Bob
>>>
>>> Ed Sutter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bob,
>>>> I gave you what I have for the ML403/micromonitor stuff right?
>>>> If you need help with that, lemme know.
>>>> Ed Sutter
>>>>
>>>> Robert S. Grimes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please, less formality - Bob is fine by me!
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like I'll be following you, I guess!  I had originally (as 
>>>>> in earlier today) thought I'd finish my MicroMonitor work first, 
>>>>> but perhaps I should move RTEMS up first.  It doesn't really matter 
>>>>> too much for me, and hopefully I'll be able to contribute more - 
>>>>> given your schedule.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have the TEMAC working yet?  Or are you using one of the 
>>>>> "soft" IP cores?  What serial port core are you using?
>>>>>
>>>>> Take care,
>>>>>
>>>>> gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Robert!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly what I needed.  Over the next few days I will be working the
>>>>>> patches in and comparing to the firmware as its been specified in our
>>>>>> board- its quite similar to an ML403.  We do have flexibility wrt the
>>>>>> Virtex firmware so reconfigs there will not be an issue.  I think the
>>>>>> goal will be to create a proper bsp to support our board.  The 
>>>>>> initial
>>>>>> tests will be RTEMS running our flight software, taking data in 
>>>>>> over a
>>>>>> serial port and transmitting out of ethernet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd be happy to share the RTEMS portions of the work & collaborate
>>>>>> wherever its feasable.  We have to be running & stable by the end of
>>>>>> August so development is going to be brisk over the next couple 
>>>>>> weeks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Robert S. Grimes writes:
>>>>>>  > Hi Greg,
>>>>>>  >  > I'm in the same boat as you.  Keith has sent me his diffs, 
>>>>>> which I  > include here.  Note that they are against a little 
>>>>>> older version  > (V4.6.5) of RTEMS, and should work on a suitably 
>>>>>> configured Xilinx ml403  > board.  You'll have to make sure your 
>>>>>> V4 configuration is compatible  > with his stuff, or change one 
>>>>>> side or another...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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