Hi all,
These days I'm working on making a PCI Express interface in hardware (FPGA) and writing a Linux driver for it. When I'll be done with that, I suppose I'll know a thing or two about the PCI bus.
Now, not that it's something to happen in the near future, but I just wondered: What's the level of interest in a lecture about PCI (or more like PCI Express?). I'm talking about the hardware (and protocol) principles of a PCI vs PCIe buses (which are completely different), a bird's view on the configuration of a PCI device ("plug and play", done by BIOS for most of us), then a bit about bus mastering and DMA, and wrap it all up with describing the anatomy of a Linux PCI driver. Just so one knows what it's trying to accomplish when reading the source. Ah, and we also have IRQ's and MSI's. A lot of fun, in short.
This is a pretty heavy lecture to prepare, but if I'll see you guys here getting crazy about the idea, I'll consider it. :)
Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
