Hi Alex, I couldn't find your original email so I thought posting o CAStal Here's my original message
> Hi Alex
>
> I'm Dimitri Turbiner
> Actually I'm extremely interested in working exactl
> on the XUPv2p board and since I saw your post o
> CAStalk that you have already a working instalation o
> Linux I would like to ask you some questions
>
> First let me describe you my project
> We have an old french robotical arm
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> ). And I want it to play chess. It has some very ol
> 8085 based controling boards wich need to be replace
> by newer controllers. This will be easily done in th
> FPGA fabric. Next, when the arm moves the chess piece
> around fairly good, I can hang a camera above so tha
> it will recognize the position of the pieces (My mos
> basic idea about that was simply sticking small piece
> of paper of specifical color each to each ches
> figurine). Again I thought about Digilent vide
> digitizer board and some cheap analog camera. The nex
> step will be to put a RTOS on the board and be able t
> remotely control the robot. The last thing will be t
> make GNUchess run onboard so make the robot a full
> independent chess player
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> 1) Was it possible to use the vga for console outpu
> or you did everything through serial or ethernet? Wer
> you even able to run X in it
>
> 2) My idea was to fully put linux on the 2 PPCs.
> read that because of some cache architectur
> incompatibilities it is not possible to run a rea
> dual processor linux kernel.
> So my idea was to simply run two parallel linu
> systems. One would be fully dedicated running GNUches
> and the other one would do all the rest (we
> interface, SSH, logs...
> To switch between the two systems (vga output an
> keyboard would be shared) I would simply press
> button on the board or something like that
> So my question to you who already have experienc
> using the board is that would it be reasonabl
> feasible
>
> 3) I don't know if you have experience using th
> camera digitizer board form Digilent. If you do, woul
> it be very difficult to implement a simple shape (o
> color) recognition system on the fpga fabric an
> interface it with one of the linux systems?
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>
> If you have some advices to give me or something lik
> that I will be extremely appreciative. You shoul
> understand me; what i need most right now is to tal
> with experienced people who could give me advices
>
> Thanks you very very much
> Dimitr
>
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