"John Bonesio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/14/2006 10:52:16 AM: <snip> > > I don't think that there are any "version" registers in the Xilinx > IP cores that a driver could check to determine compatibility. That > would be very cheap to implement in hardware and you could then > develop more universal drivers. > > [John] > We've examined doing this in the past, and gotten some push back due to > the use of bram or other resources. Conceptually, it's a great idea, I > just don't know if this is likely to happen any time soon. >
John, I thinking in terms of something like a 32 bit register (i.e. like a processor's PVR register) that has a hard-coded magic number which a driver can read and decode to determine driver compatibility. That does not sound resource-intensive given the size FPGAs we are talking about. Probably don't even need 32 bits. Keith _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
