Aijuboard – A Computer Based on the Zynq-7000 SoC with FPGA Running Plan 9

Re:Aijuboard – A Computer Based on the Zynq-7000 SoC with FP... by rjsw on Saturday April 25, 2015 @06:24AM (#9437899)

Why not just port Plan 9 to a Parallella board ?

They do plan to have SATA which isn't on any other Zynq dev board AFAIK, this will require some FPGA work as it isn't provided by the SoC.

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Re:Aijuboard – A Computer Based on the Zynq-7000 SoC with FP... by eekee on Saturday April 25, 2015 @10:39AM (#9438420)

The point was for this one guy (aiju) to see if he could design and build a whole working computer. If I could afford one, I'd get one as much for the purpose of supporting heroic individual effort -- I witnessed some of his struggles -- as for any other reason.

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Re:Aijuboard – A Computer Based on the Zynq-7000 SoC with FP... by awalton on Saturday April 25, 2015 @06:53AM (#9437964)

However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core

I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer FPGA and start thinking about the kernel driver workup for it.

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