At Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:34:42 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >struct. (although it has a xilinx firmware loading routine). > > just to make sure there is no misinformation going around: the > "firmware" loaded by the hdsp driver has nothing to do with the xilinx > fpga. its not even really "firmware" in the conventional sense. its > actually configuration data for the i/o box attached to the pci/pcmcia > card, and is written to the already running fpga, which passes it > through/writes it to the i/o box. you can have a "running" hdsp card > with no i/o box, but that's hardly what you'd call useful :)
thanks for the clarification. for more notes about xilinx chip: in the case of vx-pocket drivers, the xilinx chip works as a kind of boot-strapping. so, in this case, the firmware to start up the xilinx chip is necessary to make the main dsp chip accessible through it. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
