Linux on Virtex 4?

Does anyone have experience or know the best solution to get Linux on Virtex 4? I heard something about MicroBlaze as a softcore processor.

Hello Bill,

Bill wrote:
> Does anyone have experience or know the best solution to get Linux on Virtex 4? I heard something about MicroBlaze as a softcore processor.

You can put a MicroBlaze on any Virtex 4 family FPGA, and as long as you 
have sufficient external memory on the board you can run Linux on it. 
Alternatively you can use a V4-FX chip with embedded PPC processors, and 
run PPC Linux on that (again subject to sufficient external memory).

See http://www.petalogix.com and http://developer.petalogix.com for 
commercially supported offerings of Linux on MicroBlaze.

Alternatively, subscribe to the microblaze-uclinux mailing list via

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

Regards,

John

Thanks.

And do you know if either will support USB 2.0? Would I just a host controller hardware?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:32:22 -0800, Bill wrote:

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>Does anyone have experience or know the best solution to get Linux on Virtex 4? I heard something about MicroBlaze as a softcore processor.

I have seen it running on their ML403 eval board (included in the package)  I
think they are using the PPC 405 hard
processor.

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?sGloba
lNavPick=PRODUCTS&sSecondaryNavPick=Design+Tools&category=&iLanguageID=1&key=H
W-V4-ML403-USA