Reply by Uwe Bonnes ●July 15, 20082008-07-15
Tom P <poliquin@softcomp.remove-this.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:06:28 -0700, Alex.Louie wrote:



> > On Jun 25, 7:04 am, muthu...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Friends,
> >>
> >> I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
> >> But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
> >> curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
> >> I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
> >> mode.
> >>



> I am using ISE 10.1 on Linux Fedora 5 (old), kernel 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
> and it works great!  The USB cable programmer also works well. Xilinx
> finally did it right and used libusb (standard), so no complicated
> drive install. Newer versions of Fedora should work fine.


Xilinx only did it half way right. For the parallel port cables they still
use WinDriver  instead of /dev/ppdev access. And there is no JTAG API to
make custom adapters known to Impact.

For the parallel port, libusb-driver http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/ still
comes handy 
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
Reply by Uwe Bonnes ●July 15, 20082008-07-15
Tom P <poliquin@softcomp.remove-this.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:06:28 -0700, Alex.Louie wrote:



> > On Jun 25, 7:04 am, muthu...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Friends,
> >>
> >> I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
> >> But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
> >> curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
> >> I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
> >> mode.
> >>



> I am using ISE 10.1 on Linux Fedora 5 (old), kernel 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
> and it works great!  The USB cable programmer also works well. Xilinx
> finally did it right and used libusb (standard), so no complicated
> drive install. Newer versions of Fedora should work fine.


Xilinx only did it half way right. For the parallel port cables they still
use WinDriver  instead of /dev/ppdev access. And there is no JTAG API to
make custom adapters known to Impact.

-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
Reply by Goli ●July 15, 20082008-07-15
On Jul 15, 9:27 am, Tom P <poliq...@softcomp.remove-this.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:06:28 -0700, Alex.Louie wrote:
> > On Jun 25, 7:04 am, muthu...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Friends,
>
> >> I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
> >> But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
> >> curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
> >> I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
> >> mode.
>
> I am using ISE 10.1 on Linux Fedora 5 (old), kernel 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
> and it works great!  The USB cable programmer also works well. Xilinx
> finally did it right and used libusb (standard), so no complicated
> drive install. Newer versions of Fedora should work fine.
>
> Thanks Xilinx!
>
> Tom


I have been using Xilinx ISE softwares on Ubuntu, and it works
perfectly fine. I like to use it with Linux as I can create the make
environment and run the softwares which makes them very convenient.

--
Goli
Reply by Tom P ●July 15, 20082008-07-15
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:06:28 -0700, Alex.Louie wrote:


> On Jun 25, 7:04 am, muthu...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Friends,
>>
>> I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
>> But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
>> curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
>> I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
>> mode.
>>


I am using ISE 10.1 on Linux Fedora 5 (old), kernel 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
and it works great!  The USB cable programmer also works well. Xilinx
finally did it right and used libusb (standard), so no complicated
drive install. Newer versions of Fedora should work fine.

Thanks Xilinx!

Tom
Reply by Alex.Louie ●June 25, 20082008-06-25
On Jun 25, 7:04 am, muthu...@gmail.com wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
> But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
> curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
> I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
> mode.
>
> Linux version would be Red hat Enterprise WS version 4.0 (64-bit).
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Muthu


I definitely prefer the Linux version.  See the thread "Is Vista
Workable" for a huge list of reasons why.

Just make sure that the Linux version you pick is supported by Xilinx.

me.
Reply by ●June 25, 20082008-06-25
Friends,

I have been using the Xilinx tools ISE, EDK in Windows environment.
But now planning to use Linux PC for running ISE and EDK. I am
curious, which platform (Windows or Linux) is good for Xilinx tools?
I am planning to use the ISE and EDK in GUI mode, not command line
mode.

Linux version would be Red hat Enterprise WS version 4.0 (64-bit).

Thank you.

Best regards,
Muthu