Hello, I am a beginner with fpgas with practically no experience with this material, working as an undergraduate researcher under a graduate student and a professor at the University of Maryland.
They have asked me to find out a few things about the Linux capabilities on the xilinx ml300 board I am playing with.
Under the documentation on the xilinx site, the microdrive has a version of Montavista Linux 2.1 already installed on it, which can be booted. However, after logging in, I'm not able to really do anything because the drive is set as read-only. Everything I have found on the web about the ml300 board and Linux refers to porting a newer version onto the board, which confuses me as to why. I was wondering what the problem with the already installed Linux was or where I could find information on how to use it, especially it's TCP/IP capabilities.
Any help or advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Eric Yeh