Hello Jakub,
So, does this contribution made me passing patch requirement?
Yes. But note that it is only a prerequisite, the formal SOCIS student
selection process starts only after the application deadline. Don't
forget to submit your application [1] and please use our application
template [2].
[1] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/?q=node/21
[2] http://trac.helenos.org/wiki/SOCISAppTemp
* qemu - totally no luck. I've tried passing u-boot binary as -bios
parameter (which seems to be expected, as default "PROM_FILENAME"
in https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/hw/sparc/leon3.c is
"u-boot.bin"). There was no console output and no signs of life.
I have tested QEMU 1.5.0 with the following command line
qemu-system-sparc -M leon3_generic -cpu LEON3 -nographic
QEMU loads u-boot.bin and it apparently runs some code (it is busy), but
there is still no output. I believe that the problem might be as simple
as configuring the I/O devices where the u-boot compiled for GRSIM/TSIM
expects them, but sure the QEMU documentation is rather poor on this.
* USB-FPGA Module 1.11c from ZTEX (Germany). Xilinx Spartan 6 LX25,
64MB DDR RAM, 128Kbit EEPROM, SD card slot and some I/O ports.
Verified that it's capable of running LEON3, there's even a nice
tutorial: http://wiki.ztex.de/doku.php?id=en:projects:leon3
URLs: http://www.ztex.de/usb-fpga-1/usb-fpga-1.11.e.html
http://shop.ztex.de/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=52
They also have Open Source discount program:
http://www.ztex.de/os_discount_program.e.html
Price: 129 EUR and location in Germany, so there are no problems
with shipping. That board is VERY low cost solution compared to
every other possibility (including emulators).
This indeed looks reasonable and it is also reasonably cheap. But I
still suggest to wait for the reply from ESA whether we get access to
the full version of TSIM. We can always decide to buy the hardware later on.
M.D.
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