gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

[David Carr]

You can actually do without the binary only kernel modules. I use a GPL 
tool called xc3sprog to program my Xilinx fpga devices. Do a quick 
google and you'll find it. It only officially supports Spartan 3 devices 
but I was able to make it program a Virtex II Pro as well. Let me know 
if you need some help getting it set up.

-David Carr

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:16:47PM -0400, Darrell Harmon wrote:
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>> The Xilinx software is available for a specific version of Redhat Enterprise
>> Linux on x86 machines. I am successfully running it in a 32 bit chroot on 
>> my AMD64 box running Debian. The install was not too difficult.
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> Does the chroot take care of the kernel modules?  Or do you just do without?
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>> Hopefully someday we will have a free software FPGA toolchain.
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> I hope so.  Wasn't someone working on that in this list.
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