porting linux to memec Virtex-II Pro board with PowerPC405 hard core

I've just installed Montavista Linux on Memec VirtexIIPro FF1152 board. And I had the same question that you have now. In case of ML300 board, it use SystemACE module to configure HW and SW. So it doesn't use general BootLoader like U-boot. If your board has SystemACE module linux can be easily installed on your board.

If there is no SystemACE module in your board, you could configure HW and download SW(linux kernel) with JTAG download cable.

Yes, You ought to copy BSP file to your kernel source tree to make the kernel fit your own board. Follow the instructions detailed in the document of url below:

You can have more documents in Xilinx website.

Links below may help

Alex

From the microblaze uclinux list microblaze-uclinux mailing list snipped-for-privacy@itee.uq.edu.au Project Home Page :

In thread titled "New Digilentinc board" back in April this year. OP was myself.

Paul Hartke wrote: Or

I've already used these helpful references to get a Linux kernel running on the PowerPC405 on the Digilent XUP-V2Pro board. I'm new to ucLinux but it doesn't appear to be much more complicated than the ucLinux steps.

Paul

Quoting Schunke Jan-Hendrik : Hi Aurash, hi John,

We are working with the PPC on virtex2p. You do not need Monta Vista Linux. All you need is denx eldk:

On the other hand we are also using uClinux on spartan3. It is really a question of what hardware you have and what you want to do ;-)

Have Fun

Except that a MicroBlaze soft processor core is not a PowerPC.

Dan,

Since when do folks stick to the discussion topics related to the "official" subject? :-)

Seriously, those threads indeed dealt with running linux on the PowerPC inside Xilinx FPGAs. Another thread that's useful:

Paul

Dan Henry wrote:

Paul,

Are you suggesting that:

PowerPC 405 Linux runs on a MicroBlaze?

or

MicroBlaze ucLinux run on a PowerPC 405?

Perhaps we should slice this differently. There is MMU Linux--what most folks think of as linux--that runs on all sort of processors with an MMU including all modern PowerPCs. That runs just fine on the PowerPC inside the Xilinx FPGAs. It does not run on Microblaze since there is no MMU for MB at this point in time.

Then there is MMU-less Linux--often called uclinux. This can run on processors with or without an MMU. A very common usemodel is Microblaze uclinux but folks have run uclinux on the PowerPC for various reasons.

Bottom line--Linux is well supported for both Microblaze and the PowerPC in Xilinx FPGAs.

Paul

Dan Henry wrote:

Ah, that's better now, qualifying it exactly the way I know it to be. Explicitness, in the case of these mixed PowerPC and MicroBlaze threads, is beneficial IMHO.

Hi Alex, I am new to xilinx platform. my question is : can i use the following to port linux on ML403 xilinx board (ppc405 core)?

K> > hi all: