by 9600 » Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:21 pm
You should be able to use any Linux distro/system that has an armhf architecture build root filesystem, and you would just use this in place of the official Ubuntu one, with the stock BOOT filesystem alongside that and containing the FPGA bitstream, kernel and devicetree database (the Parallella-specific stuff). Of course, depending on your particular application you may need to then also build the Epiphany SDK and perhaps COPRTHR SDK on your new system.
I seem to recall that someone was also working on FreeBSD support, so that may be another option at some point if Linux is not a strict requirement (and the BSD systems tend to have minimal install options).
Cheers,
Andrew
Andrew Back