rtems source builder on flexible hardware (FPGA)

[Hoefle Marco]

Hello Sebastian and Ric,
I think it would be good to think about a unification of these BSPS.
In the Virtex BSB as I understood some information are given by the configure process while others are taken from the xparameters.h file which is generated by the Xilinx tools.
The xparameter.h approach is Xilinx specific and also the syntax of the defines has changed throughout the different versions of Xilinx ISE/XPS
We use for now the virtex bsp together with RSb and environment variables (see other mailing list email)
Marco



-----Original Message-----
From: Ric Claus [mailto:claus at slac.stanford.edu] 
Sent: Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 12:15
To: Sebastian Huber
Cc: Hoefle Marco; rtems-users at rtems.org
Subject: Re: rtems source builder on flexible hardware (FPGA)

If I recall correctly, the virtex BSP expects the architecture of a particular Virtex 4 evaluation board and to have certain firmware loaded onto the FPGA fabric.  I wrote the virtex4 and virtex5 BSPs to be generic.  

	Ric


On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:30 AM, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 17/10/14 17:19, Hoefle Marco wrote:
>> 
>> Also I have seen that there are two bsps in the mainline rtems repo:
>> 
>> virtex and virtex4.
>> Our platform is virtex4 but we used the virtex bsp at that time.
>> So the name virtex is confusing as not all virtex devices contain a powerpc.
> 
> I don't know why these virtex4 and virtex5 BSPs exist (added 2012).  The virtex BSP exists since 2007 and covers also the Virtex-4.
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