Agave Mountain

Prerequisites

You will need to build the USB drivers for the Xilinx Platform Cable USB device, hence, you must have the kernel headers/sources for your system available.

Note: Red Hat 4 does not come with a kernel sources rpm.  You can install the kernel headers with the kernel-devel-2.6.9-34.EL rpm.

Install ISE

Mount up the CD and run the installer to install ISE.

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

# cd /mntrom

# ./setup

Select /opt/xilinx for the destination directory.

If you don't work with Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, Kernel 2.4, you better deselect Platform Cable USB Driver and Parallel Cable Drivers.

Install EDK

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cddrom

# cd /mnt/cdrom

# ./setup

Select /opt/edk for the destination directory.

Apply ISE patch

# unzip 8_1_03i_lin.zip

# ./setup

Apply EDK patch

# unzip EDK_8_1_02i_lin.zip

# ./setup

Apply Final ISE patch

# cp ise_81i_ip_update1.zip /opt/Xilinx

# cd /opt/Xilinx

# unzip ise_81i_ip_update.zip

Create Script/Setup Files

Next, we need to create a script or two.  Don’t forget to chmod +x these scripts.

start_ise.sh

Creat a start_ise.sh script.    This script will initialize the variables and create a personal .xilinx directory for you.

#!/bin/bash
XILINX_DIR=/opt/xilinx
XILINX_USER_DIR=~/.xilinx

if [ ! -d ${XILINX_USER_DIR} ]; then
mkdir ${XILINX_USER_DIR}
fi
cd ${XILINX_USER_DIR}

. ${XILINX_DIR}/settings.sh

${XILINX_DIR}/bin/lin/ise

start_edk.sh

Create a start_edk.sh script.  This script will initialize the variables and create a personal .xilinx directory for you.

#!/bin/bash

# start_edk.sh

#

XILINX_DIR=/opt/xilinx
EDK_DIR=/opt/edk
XILINX_USER_DIR=~/.xilinx

if [ ! -d ${XILINX_USER_DIR} ]; then
mkdir ${XILINX_USER_DIR}
fi
cd ${XILINX_USER_DIR}

. ${XILINX_DIR}/settings.sh
. ${EDK_DIR}/setup.sh

${EDK_DIR}/bin/lin/xps

setup.sh

Create a file in /opt/edk named setup.sh and place the following text in it:

          # /opt/edk/setup.sh

export XILINX_EDK=/opt/edk
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${XILINX_EDK}/bin/lin:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export PATH=${XILINX_EDK}/bin/lin:${XILINX_EDK}/gnu/microblaze/lin/bin:\
${XILINX_EDK}/gnu/powerpc-eabi/lin/bin:${PATH}

Install WinDriver and Xilinx driver

Download the WinDriver package from Xilinx:

ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/utilities/M1_workstation/linuxdrivers.2.6.tar.gz

Fedora 6 Note:  You will have to create a /usr/src/linux link to your kernel source.  In my case it was:

# ln –s /usr/src/linux /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586

# tar zxvf linuxdrivers.2.6.tar.gz
# cd linuxdrivers.2.6
# cd windrvr
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# dmesg

If you see the following line, then you have installed the driver correctly:

[...]
WinDriver v7.00 Jungo (c) 1997 - 2005 Build Date: Apr 26 2005 X86 loaded

To load the driver:

# modprobe windrvr6

Next, build the xpc4drvr driver:

# cd ..

# cd xpc4drvr

# ./configure

# make

# make install

You will receive the following error:

Loading /lib/modules/2.6.16/kernel/drivers/misc/xpc4drvr.ko
ERROR: Module xpc4drvr does not exist in /proc/modules

# depmod

Register the drivers with USB hotplug system

# cd path_to_ise_installation/bin/lin/
# touch /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
# sh setup_pcusb

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems connecting and downloading, follow the next steps:

1. Login with root permission and open a terminal.
2. Verify that the "windrvr6" module is loaded and running.

cat /proc/modules

If it is installed, the "windrvr6" module will appear in the generated list. If the module is not loaded, refer to (Xilinx Answer 22648) for instructions on how to install and load the module.

3. Change the current directory to "<InstallDir>/bin/lin", where "<InstallDir>" is the location of the previously installed Xilinx design tools:

cd <InstallDir>/bin/lin

4. Download the "xusbdfwu.hex" firmware file from the following link to this directory:
ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/utilities/fpga/xusbdfwu-1025.zip
5. Disconnect the USB cable from the PC.
6. Enter the following command to run the installation script:

source ./setup_pcusb

7. Reconnect the USB cable.

Finished

Reboot.  All of the software is installed and configured.  

# ~/start_driver.sh

# ~/start_edk

The Xilinx JTAG box should now have an amber light on (or green if the board is attached and powered).