Hello Michal Thanks for your reply
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: >> Hello Michal and Stefan >> >> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex >> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life. > > I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for > several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already > removed. Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the tools from the last two years does not support ppc. I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long as v5, s6... was on sale. http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930 > There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform > is obsolete from my point of view. We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco uses quite a lot of virtex5 :) Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G > >> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all >> the support? > > Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx > will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards > feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it > because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it. Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question. If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great. > >> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405 >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine > > I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old > too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago. Last change for virtex5 is from 2014. Regards! -- Ricardo Ribalda _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
