On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At present, EMC has a driver (by PeteV) that supports a single > > configuration. That one config is stored as part of the EMC source code, > > in both VHDL and binery form - binary because most people don't have the > > Xilinx software installed, and even if they do, the translation from VHDL > > to bitfile is NOT something you want to do every time you build the > > software.
Calling xst and friends from the command line is trivial enough given the XILINX env. variable. But few people will need/want the ISE toolchain installed, likewise, many will not want to recompile just to update a single firmware blob. Embedding firmware is wrong - Do a search on the LKML for the reasons why - The kernel team have provided a simple mechanism (for 2.6.x series) that avoids bloating a driver with 97652 bytes (166980 for 200K devices, and even more for 400k). [Peter] Is there an easy way to probe any of the fpga cards to determine which chip is fitted ? (on a related topic, any chance of a dump of the 256bytes of the PCI registers on both 4i6x & 5i2x cards ? ). Firmware loading is not as straight forward with 2.4.x kernels - For those, search for mod_firmware_load() to see one way of doing it. Note that the "old way" imposes policy with respect to where the firmware is located (and no, it does NOT go in /etc). For firmware handling in 2.6.x kernels, refer to LDD.ver3 and also the source tree - Plenty of examples to be found there. -- Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
