On 21/2/20 3:51 am, Hesham Almatary wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 21:38, Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 12:58 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM suyash singh <suyashsingh...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> sorry clicked reply instead of "reply all"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> Hi Suyash,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Gedare
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:30 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Suyash,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:07 AM suyash singh <suyashsingh...@gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am interested in "Port RTEMS to MicroBlaze"
>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2902
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I start understanding the previous work done and understanding 
>>>>>> what else needs to be done?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully Hesham or Joel will chime in on their effort.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Graham has a repo somewhere with the port in its current state.
>>
> https://github.com/heshamelmatary/rtems-microblaze
> 
>> I think this is likely a viable project with the Qemu simulator.
>>
> AFAIR, there were licence issues merging this project which copies some of
> Xilinx's drivers/code to RTEMS.

The latest Xilinx SDKs have an acceptable license. Maybe updating the drivers
you have will let us merge the work.

Chris
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