Hi,
On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
Hello Michal
Thanks for your reply
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com wrote:
Hi,
On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
Hello Michal and Stefan
Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already removed.
Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the tools from the last two years does not support ppc.
It is also about SDK where that support was removed.
I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long as v5, s6... was on sale.
http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/2509...
One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the latest SW. Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?
There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform is obsolete from my point of view.
We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&cata...
ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)
The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all the support?
Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.
Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board support.
There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405 http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/ma...
I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.
:-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because we are not testing it at all.
Thanks, Michal