Hi all:
So, my boss just went and sold to his bosses the idea of using LTSP in our
Electrical Engineering coding lab. This is a good thing, except a firm
requirement for all these systems is that the users must be able to plug in
their EE boards (Xilinx/Digilent FPGAs) into the systems USB port to program
it. Xilinx provides a (poor) driver; there's also rumors of a linux open
source driver. However, I'm conserned about how to make it work. The
software doing the programming is binary (so I can't re-compile it), and
from what I understand, is fairly heavyweight. In any case, using that as a
"local app" would simply turn these machines into thick clients, as 90% of
what they're used for is this app, and probably 98% of the non-os cpu power
goes to this app.
So...Is there some way to generically forward a USB port to the terminal?
How about access raw devices?
I suspect the answer is no, and my boss promised the impossible without
talking to me first, but....It would be REALLY cool if it works!
--Jim
Linux Admin
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_____________________________________________________________________
Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss
For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
