Re: [casper] Get Python running on ROACH-2?

2013-01-09 Thread Jack Hickish
Hey Jeff, Ioana Probably worth mentioning that that python script mainly existed because the ROACH 1 didn't have access to a 100mb Ethernet connection except via the powerPC. ROACH 2 has a dedicated fpga-side 1000(?)mb/s interface. Depending on your application, you might consider using this for

Re: [casper] Get Python running on ROACH-2?

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Haoxuan Zheng jef...@mit.edu wrote: If the answer is that we need to set up netboot to boot via dhcp+tftp+nfs, there is another constraint: we want our final system to make use of a combination of roach-1 and roach-2. We are going to have the server PC connected

Re: [casper] Get Python running on ROACH-2?

2013-01-08 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Jeff and Ioana, To get the /proc/*/hw/io_reg/* devices you will need to run a BORPH enabled linux kernel. This will lock you into an older kernel (unless you want to migrate the BORPH linux changes to a newer kernel, but that would be a lot of work). I am not sure what level (or