On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:17:23AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Spenser Gilliland a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > My name is Spenser Gilliland. I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer at > > Baylor. I spent quite a bit of time over the past few months putting Debian > > on a cluster of FPGAs. It was quite an adventure with several pitfalls. In > > order to reduce the complexity, I have started collecting information at the > > http://wiki.debian.org/FPGA wiki page. I see FPGA's as a possible future > > direction for all embedded systems, and having good documentation for > > installing and using Linux/Debian on these devices would increase the > > relevance of Debian in the future. > > > > The next step after documentation is experimenting with some really > > interesting concepts like Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration, creating > > co-processors or implementing entirely new processors. FPGA's are the most > > flexible electrical device in history and I believe they are the gateway to > > the next wave of computing advances. > > > > I wanted to see who is interested in this kind of work and try to create a > > good community around FGPA's and Debian I choose this list because the > > FPGAs I am using utilizes a PowerPC processor but if this program gets of > > the ground it may be resonable to create a new mailing list. Let me know if > > you are working on this or want to work with me or have any suggestions > > about other list I should send this too. > > > > Thanks, > > Spenser Gilliland > > > Hi, > > In our lab we also use linux on Virtex but not a Debian (busybox for the > moment), thanks for your documentation effort. > I'm really interested to get more informations when you have some.
I'm also interested. I have a project which will probably use a Suzaku: http://www.atmark-techno.com/en/products/suzaku/suzaku-v although it seems that I will have to learn japanese first... Regards, Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
