M*Blaze in Cyclone ! End of What? ;)

Hi

I would like to quote Martin Schoeberl: "And a MB on an Altera FPGA, that's
the end of the world."

Well the end of the world must then be TODAY?
MB is working in Cyclone FPGA, screenshots available:

http://uclinux.openchip.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11

some comments - the program that is running in the FPGA is compiled using
GPL GNU toolchain so there can be no legal issues with that type of useage.
If something is GPL you have rights to use it and give away for free. So
using GPL GNU toolchain for M*Blaze Cyclone implementation is defenetly
allowed use. Xilinx licensing and restrictions apply only to the MicroBlaze
netslist, source code and reference design and other documentation that is
released under different licenses.

a funny thing is that Xilinx ISE/EDK that are using GNU and GPL stuff as
much as I can see the GPL license text is not shipped with EDK distribution,
what itself is violation of the GPL license ASFAIK ?, well maybe I was blind
and the GPL license is somewhere hidden. Altera OTOH *does* comply with 3rd
party licenses and included copies of the relevant licenses with
Quartus/SOPC builder.

the M*Blaze/uCLinux has already received first donation offers, but more
donations are welcome of course, specially in form of FPGA development
hardware.

Antti
PS I am not the author of the open-source M*Blaze, neither is the M*Blaze
IP-Core downloadable from openchip, the primary download location for the
M*Blaze IP-Core is the opencores website, project name aeMB.

Antti Lukats wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I would like to quote Martin Schoeberl: "And a MB on an Altera FPGA, that's
> the end of the world."
> 
> Well the end of the world must then be TODAY?
> MB is working in Cyclone FPGA, screenshots available:
> 
> http://uclinux.openchip.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11

  Impressive, Wonder when we will see NIOS-II on Spartan-3 ;)
-jg

Hi folks,

Antti Lukats wrote:

> the M*Blaze/uCLinux has already received first donation offers, but more
> donations are welcome of course, specially in form of FPGA development
> hardware.

I would like to point out that this has nothing to do with the 
Microblaze uClinux project that is run out of The University of 
Queensland.  We are neither soliciting nor accepting donations for this 
work.

The Microblaze uClinux project home page:

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux

Regards,

John

Antti,

Antti Lukats wrote:

 > the M*Blaze/uCLinux has already received first donation offers, but more
 > donations are welcome of course, specially in form of FPGA development
 > hardware.

> PS I am not the author of the open-source M*Blaze, neither is the M*Blaze
> IP-Core downloadable from openchip, the primary download location for the
> M*Blaze IP-Core is the opencores website, project name aeMB.

You are also not the author of a single line of source code in the 
microblaze-uclinux project.  I would appreciate it if you did not make 
comments that could be misunderstood as representing me or any other 
contributor to that project.

There is no such thing as M*Blaze. The author of aeMB has wisely avoided 
any direct reference to Microblaze.  If the Leon core had been called 
SP*RC, it would have lasted about 10 minutes before Sun jumped on it.

Please let the people who do the work, speak for themselves.

Thanks,

John

"John Williams" <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote in message
news:cjqu87$pf2$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...
> Antti,
>
> Antti Lukats wrote:
>
>  > the M*Blaze/uCLinux has already received first donation offers, but
more
>  > donations are welcome of course, specially in form of FPGA development
>  > hardware.
>
> > PS I am not the author of the open-source M*Blaze, neither is the
M*Blaze
> > IP-Core downloadable from openchip, the primary download location for
the
> > M*Blaze IP-Core is the opencores website, project name aeMB.
>
> You are also not the author of a single line of source code in the
> microblaze-uclinux project.

You are right that there is no source from me in the uCLinux project, except
that I wrote and made available for free to anyone a bootloader from
SystemACE for uCLinux image, there is also source code to test the system to
mbvanilla compliance, both source codes are available for downloads

http://xilinx.openchip.org/index.php?page=3&action=category&cat_id=9

since february 2004, I also have ported uCLinux/MicroBlaze to different FPGA
platforms and helped others in such porting. If that doesnt count as
contributing to the project in your eyes so be it.

> I would appreciate it if you did not make
> comments that could be misunderstood as representing me or any other
> contributor to that project.

I have not made such comments, I am not stupid you know. Besides uCLinux is
not your project.

I want to see aeMB based system to be mbvanilla compliant, thats all !

If I cant use uCLinux in that context then I will use uC*Linux if that
pleases you?

> There is no such thing as M*Blaze. The author of aeMB has wisely avoided
> any direct reference to Microblaze.  If the Leon core had been called
> SP*RC, it would have lasted about 10 minutes before Sun jumped on it.

sure there is no M*Blaze so why get upset?

> Please let the people who do the work, speak for themselves.

Did I disturb you doing your work? Sorry if I did wasnt my intent.

> Thanks,

gee John, sorry to get you upset! That really was not my intent!

have abreak have kit-kat take look at the bright side :)

antti