On 9/14/06, Keith J Outwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So what direction do we (as the community) want to go for supporting > > Xilinx IP in the Linux kernel? > > I don't know about anyone else, but running Linux on Virtex FPGAs is > something I simply have to be able to do. With or without Xilinx > drivers, I think the kernel needs to support Xilinx hardware.
ditto > > > > > If we reject the Xilinx driver code, then we either have to do without > > Xilinx support in mainline, or we need to write new drivers that > > address the above issues (support multiple IP versions, etc). The > > Xilinx support in mainline right now does not use any Xilinx code. > > (Xilinx PIC and UART). > > > > Thoughts? > > As painful as it may be, maybe we just write drivers from scratch and > try to track changes in the IP. That's kind of the direction I'm leaning too. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
