Hi, Great idea, I would love to attend. rgs, Rami
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Eli Billauer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
