Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-29 Thread andy pugh
On 29 November 2010 17:29, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Of course, we don't have the right to distribute that software anyway, > so it's a moot point. That was why I was suggesting doing it the way I described, but it seems to be impractical. -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of f

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-29 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jonathan George wrote: > Perhaps a live CD that could do the same? This would have to be a live DVD, since the FPGA software from Xilinx is several GB in size. Of course, we don't have the right to distribute that software anyway, so it's a moot point. The Xilinx software also requires registra

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-28 Thread Jonathan George
Perhaps a live CD that could do the same? On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: > On 28 November 2010 21:17, Jeff Epler wrote: > > > The wall time to build one firmware is up to 15 CPU minutes > > (3x20-1/SV24.BIT) and uses upwards of 300MB RAM. > > It was looking like a good idea up

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 November 2010 21:17, Jeff Epler wrote: > The wall time to build one firmware is up to 15 CPU minutes > (3x20-1/SV24.BIT) and uses upwards of 300MB RAM. It was looking like a good idea up to then. I am guessing The Cloud is not the answer either. -- atp --

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-28 Thread Jeff Epler
In principle it's quite easy. Your web page just has to build a PIN.vhd file like this one http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=hostmot2-firmware.git;a=blob;f=PIN_SV12_72.vhd;hb=HEAD list it in the firmwares.txt file as the only entry, invoke make, and wait for the result. However The wall time

[Emc-developers] Mesa Firmwares

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Pugh
I suddenly had this wacky idea: How automate-able is the Mesa firmware production process? Would it be possible to create a web form that allowed you to specify how many of each module you wanted and a few other options (like 7i39 pinout), then have the web server compile a bitfile and email you