Just got an Athlon64 system.  I want to be able
to run the Xilinx ISE tool 
suite on this box under Linux.  I'd also like to install a 64-bit Linux on it - 
are there any issues with running xst under 64-bit linux?  I suspect there 
might be driver issues with downloading bitstreams, but I'm thinking of 
using one of the open source tools for downloading bitstreams.



Phil

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:54:28 +0000, Phil Tomson
wrote:

> Just got an Athlon64 system.  I want to be able to run the Xilinx ISE tool
> suite on this box under Linux.  I'd also like to install a 64-bit Linux on
> it - are there any issues with running xst under 64-bit linux?  I suspect
> there might be driver issues with downloading bitstreams, but I'm thinking
> of using one of the open source tools for downloading bitstreams.
> 
> 
> 
> Phil

I'm running it on 64 bit FC4 on an X2 4400+, works fine. You need to put
the following into your .cshrc

setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.7

p...@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:
> Just got an Athlon64 system.  I want to be able to run the Xilinx ISE tool 
> suite on this box under Linux.  I'd also like to install a 64-bit Linux on it - 
> are there any issues with running xst under 64-bit linux?  I suspect there 
> might be driver issues with downloading bitstreams, but I'm thinking of 
> using one of the open source tools for downloading bitstreams.

XST works fine, but the ISE Simulator is not available in the 64-bit
version, nor, as you suspected, are cable drivers for programming.

I'm hoping that they can get the 64-bit cable drivers into the next release
(8.2i?  9.0i?).  I looked into building them myself, but it's not feasible
because even though the WinDriver demo kit supports 64-bit, Xilinx supplies
their portion of the driver as a 32-bit object file.

If Xilinx would release docs on the driver API, I expect that an open
source version would get developed quickly.  I don't see what down side
this would have for Xilinx; anything that makes it easier for people to
develop using Xilinx parts should be a good thing.

In article
<q...@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Eric Smith  <e...@brouhaha.com> wrote:
>p...@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:
>> Just got an Athlon64 system.  I want to be able to run the Xilinx ISE tool 
>> suite on this box under Linux.  I'd also like to install a 64-bit Linux on it - 
>> are there any issues with running xst under 64-bit linux?  I suspect there 
>> might be driver issues with downloading bitstreams, but I'm thinking of 
>> using one of the open source tools for downloading bitstreams.
>
>XST works fine, but the ISE Simulator is not available in the 64-bit

That's fine.  I use ghdl.

>version, nor, as you suspected, are cable drivers for programming.
>
>I'm hoping that they can get the 64-bit cable drivers into the next release
>(8.2i?  9.0i?).  I looked into building them myself, but it's not feasible
>because even though the WinDriver demo kit supports 64-bit, Xilinx supplies
>their portion of the driver as a 32-bit object file.
>
>If Xilinx would release docs on the driver API, I expect that an open
>source version would get developed quickly.  I don't see what down side
>this would have for Xilinx; anything that makes it easier for people to
>develop using Xilinx parts should be a good thing.

I seem to recall that there are some open source bitstream downloaders 
available for Linux... don't have any URL handy right at the moment, though.

Phil

p...@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:
> I seem to recall that there are some open source bitstream downloaders 
> available for Linux... don't have any URL handy right at the moment, though.

xc3sprog supports Spartan 3 parts:
    http://www.rogerstech.force9.co.uk/xc3sprog/

There are several other programs which are derived from
an earlier program called ljp:

    JOLT:
        http://www.science-and-technology.nl/research/jolt/

    xilinx-jtag:
        http://cas.et.tudelft.nl/~rene/xilinx-jtag.c

    Rudolf Usselmann's version of ljp:
        http://www.asics.ws/tools/ljp.c.gz