On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorf...@xilinx.com> wrote: > >> >> The best alternative to creating the device tree dynamically > would >> >> be to >> >> append the devicetree to the bitimage in a way the boot loader > could >> >> always find it. >> >> >> > >> > That sounds like a good solution to me. >> > >> I am glad you like it. If Xilinx would like to offer any advice as >> to how to prepend a device tree to the end of a bit file without >> foreclosing any of their future plans or .... I would be happy to >> look at implementing it. > > There are options here... > > For the benefit of the mailing list: they are tied into how the FPGA > configuration is loaded, and the > particular FPGA family. By far the most portable/generic option is to > simply use an initialized BRAM for this. > > David: If you would like to have a discussion regarding particular > design tradeoffs, I'd be happy to, but since I doubt there is anyone on > this list who is interested in the vagaries of FPGA configuration > methods, I suggest we have the discussion privately.
I disagree. There are lots of lurkers on this list who care about virtex stuff, not to mention non-lurkers like me. :-) I would at least like to be a fly on the wall of any such discussion. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
