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@@ -18,3 +18,68 @@ dropped them into this directory with the filenames we expect.
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The third...is fun, in a demented sort of way. Don't know whether
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it'll work yet, but going to try automating this using
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Xvfb, xautomation, and ratpoison.
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+XiLinx voodoo from Berlin workshop notes
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+----------------------------------------
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+
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+* You need to download the Xilinx ISE Design Suite.
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+
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+* Xilinx only supports specific versions of Red Hat and Suse Linux,
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+ but it does run on Ubuntu and Debian, with the following caveat:
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+ Ubuntu and Debian symlink `/bin/sh` to `/bin/dash`, which can't
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+ handle `if [ ... ]` syntax in shell scripts. Symlinking `/bin/sh`
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+ to `/bin/bash` works.
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+
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+* The Xilinx tools are serious disk hogs: VMs for this need at least
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+ 30-40 GB of disk space.
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+
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+Step-by-step installation (Dockerfile will attempt to automate this):
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+
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+1. Unpack `Xilinx_ISE_DS_Lin_14.7_1015_1.tar` (or whatever version you have).
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+2. `cd` to `Xilinx_ISE_DS_Lin_14.7_1015_1`, and run `sudo ./xsetup`
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+3. Click through two screens of license agreements.
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+4. Select ISE WebPACK.
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+5. Unselect (or leave unselected) Install Cable Drivers.
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+6. Go!
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+
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+Well, not quite. You will need to convince the ISE that you have a license.
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+
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+On the page
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+http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-suite/ise-webpack.htm
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+click on the Licensing Solutions link. On the resulting page, expand
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+the section Obtain a license for Free or Evaluation product. To
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+download the ISE Webpack, you should have created an account, so now
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+you can go to the Licensing Site and use that account to create a
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+Certificate Based License.
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+
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+You do not need to go through the HostID dance, just say Do It. You
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+will then receive a certificate in email (not an X.509 certificate)
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+which you will be able to use. Then start the ISE Webpack by issuing
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+the command ise. Go to the Help menu and Manage Licenses. Use the
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+resulting new License Manager window to install the `.lic` file. This
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+process is complex and flakey.
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+
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+http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html
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+http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-suite/ise-webpack.htm
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+http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISE_WebPack_installation_on_Linux
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+
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+With the license file already present this is simple: follow the installation
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+instructions, tell it to use existing license file, it'll find it if
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+you click the right buttons. And yes, it's another GUI program.
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+
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+The ise binary referred to above is in `/opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/bin/lin64/ise`
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+(or in `.../lin/ise`, but the `pbuilder` setup requires a 64-bit build machine).
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+
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+It turns out you don't really need to run the whole ise tool to get to
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+the license manager, you can just run the license manager directly,
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+but you do have to source the appropriate settings file first, none of
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+the XiLinx tools work properly without that. So:
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+
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+```
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+. /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/settings64.sh
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+/opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/common/bin/lin64/xlcm -manage
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+```
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+
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+In theory, we can run this GUI stuff under `Xvfb` in Docker.
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+Debugging this will probably require exporting the `Xvfb_screen0` file
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+via a volume mount.
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