Hi
Phil -
It is important for you and others to also contact Xilinx tech support and indicate
your interest in doing work with these tools.
Alfred Rodriguez who responded, was very supportive of the idea of open VHDL based
designs running on Xilinx devices.
His summery of management though was one of indications that we should make our
collective interests more apparent
to upper level management.... I.e. each one of us should go to the Xilinks tech
support page at
http://support.xilinx.com/support/techsup/northam.htm
And ask about when we will have Xilinx Alliance tools for support of there Vertex FPGA
designs under Linux.
This will begin to wake them up!
-Peter
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Phil Wilshire wrote:
> PLease send this back to Xilinx
>
> A quick comment.
> Do what the others have done put out an " unsupported port" for free
> To kick this whole thing off.
>
> If you want help porting put out a request for porters who will sign an
> NDA
> for your source.
> Think smart use the help offered to you.
>
> This will get attention from your users.
> Lead the field don't wallow in the wake.
> There is a large list of people waiting for
> these tools.
>
> Just a comment
> Phil Wilshire
> Linux is inevitable
>
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> > FROM: Alfred Rodriguez
> >
> > ******* The following is an email from Xilinx Technical Support.
> > ******* To reply, send email to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ******* and reference the case number shown below.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I talked to management again to see what the status was of Linux support.
> > Apparently, everyone is in a standby mode waiting for each other to provide
> > support. Xilinx is waiting for the big 3 EDA vendor's to make the move to Linux.
> > Specifically, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, or Cadence. This isn't marketing's
>official
> > stance on the Linux issue, but it looks like the the agenda as of yet.
> >
> > Marketing is aware that
> > there are customers who have requested Linux support, but currently the cost of
> > development and support outweigh the demand.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Alfred Rodriguez
> >
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