Re: [LinuxBIOS] MicroBlaze [Re: PhyWrite [SPI flash-chips] PCI ROM]

[Bari Ari]

Anton wrote:
> MicroBlaze seems a promising thing. However, I'm not yet ready to rise this task to a high priority. 
> 2-3 months' development cycle suits me very nice, though. 
>    Bari, do you have a draft for schematics?
>
> Thanks.

Looking into this further MicroBlaze is probably overkill. They have an 
8-bit PicoBlaze that runs at up to 44MIPS.

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?sGlo...

The board schematics are found here:
http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/ipcenter/block_diagram/S3E_Starter_D_External_s...

I'd just have a dongle off the expansion connectors to interface to the 
mainboard FLASH socket or device.

-Bari