On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:23, Scott Anderson wrote: > > David Gibson wrote: > > Eek, wibble. It still seems somewhat unlikely to me that you'd be > > changing the peripherals "on the fly" in a real life embedded > > application. Especially considering that reboots are likely to be > > much less of an issue on an embedded system than on a big server.
> I guess I wouldn't be quite so quick to dismiss this as unlikely, but > I must admit, my crystal ball is in the shop this week. It sure would > be nice to keep such things in mind as OCP is evolving, though. As someone who actually work with FPGA chips I can assure everyone that those are always to small even when you pick one that seems insanely large when you start. I have many times been in a situation when is could work quite well to have mutually exclusive subsystem but what has stopped that before is that the chips/software usually do not support partial reconfiguration and you usually can't reconfigure the whole part without disturbing normal functions. -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson AB Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 Borgafjordsgatan 9 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 164 80 Stockholm kenneth.johansson at etx.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
