[sdiy] Small ZyBo Success

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>On Feb 16, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>
>> The little zybo demonstration web server works, so the ethernet port is enabled.  Telnet
>> also works over ethernet.  I was able to use the vi editor to modify index.html file in
>> /var/www.
>> 
>> Lotsa fun, looks like the board works. Now we just need to get 
>the rest of the stuff from > Digilent. 
>
>I've been poking around in linux a bit. If you grab the 
>documentation for the Zedboard there is some help there. I found 
>that the following commands work: 
>
>read_sw
>
>returns the state of the slide switches as a value from 0-15
>
>write_led <number>
>
>turns on / off the LEDs above the switches with values from 0-15
>
>Eric

Heh - yeah, I found those commands too by looking around in the bin directory.  One could easily
write an idiotic little script that copies the switches to the LEDs...  

The du command works, looks like the system consumes about 4.6 megs of RAM.

-- ScottG
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