Hello,

I am sorry if this is a question that has been answered before. It is just that the entire project is overwhelming right now. So I will ask for some guidance.

I need to write/port a bootloader to start a Xilinx virtex5 PPC. It is going to be running on a custom FPGA. I am not really sure where I begin, what files to create, modify, configure, etc...

I do have a problem that I am not sure is obviously resolvable. I will packaging the bootloader with the FPGA firmware files, they will be written into the BRAM via a PCI bus. The problem is that the MAC address will not be resolved until the bootloader/firmware package has been made. Is there a way that I could write this value (via script?) after the load? Maybe I just don't understand the ways that the MAC address can be written.

Thanks for any help you can give! I understand that I am asking a large general question, but I need some help finding the right road.

:: Ryan Neal

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