On 7/26/06, John Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the basic design is based on a webpack capable fpga, there will be as many variants as users. Folks can pick and choose their own configurations, be they purely video functional units or a mix of video and other. Until there exists an ASIC, there will 'only' be a FPGA to play with.
I'm not sure what side of the argument you're on, but I can see the value in providing users with a driver they can tweak as necessary and providing them a way to make that driver recognize their particular variant as distinct from someone else's. Some things will require specialized drivers, so those definitely need capability codes. But others will be experimental designs that can all use the same "generic" driver that provides basics for mmap, interrupt handling, etc. In that case, all variants are the same device from the kernel's perspecive and what changes is what userspace app you write. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
