[sdiy] FPGAs

[Noah Vawter]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Matthew Smith wrote:

> Quoth Jason Tribbeck at 28/01/11 19:02...
> ...
>> Xilinx does a Linux version (there's also the free version - the  
>> WebPack version [FWICR]). However, I think it's reasonably strict  
>> on what versions of Linux it runs on.
>
> Thanks, Jason - I'll double-check before I go and take 3.8Gb out of  
> my monthly data allocation! I seem to recall seeing something about  
> the RedHat and SuSE commercial distros being supported, but I  
> *think* that CentOS is supposed to be 100% RHEL compatible. And I  
> believe it's on my ISP's mirror, so I can download it without  
> penalties :-) Can run that as a VM.

Confirmed.  I was trying to do this last night.  No go with Ubuntu ; 
(   my buddy suggested i use resize2fs on my ext4 partition to make it  
smaller and install CentOS (also free).  I'm very tempted.  I want to  
make a floating-point coprocessor.