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

Ed Sutter esutter at lucent.com
Wed Nov 8 16:24:13 UTC 2006


Pete,
uMon has been ported to a PPC embedded within a Virtex-4.
Is that what's on the Memec board you're referring to?
Ed


D. Peter Siddons wrote:

> 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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