From: Bart Veer <bartv@ecoscentric.com>
To: gary@mlbassoc.com
Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Another copyright issue
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226164202.93699EC6F1@delenn.bartv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046275913.31018.6295.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> (message from Gary Thomas on 26 Feb 2003 09:11:53 -0700)
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> writes:
<snip>
Gary> This system uses FPGA devices for a number of peripherals
Gary> (the PCI bus in particular). The only way to use those
Gary> devices is to program them - at boot time - with this data.
Gary> The only place to hold this data on the platform is in the
Gary> FLASH. So, the choice would be to have some
Gary> very-hard-to-initialize-and-maintain way to get it into part
Gary> of the FLASH, or make it be part of RedBoot, which is what I
Gary> chose.
Gary> n.b. this sort of thing will become more and more popular in
Gary> the future. FPGA and soft-core systems are beginning to be
Gary> very common.
Understood. Using a couple of 100K of flash for this sort of thing
seems expensive, but maybe with current hardware it has become
economical.
I suspect Stallman would want the VHDL (or whatever) source files
included in the package in addition to the generated bitstreams, but I
consider that unnecessary.
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-26 15:15 Gary Thomas
2003-02-26 15:21 ` Jonathan Larmour
2003-02-26 15:24 ` Gary Thomas
2003-02-26 16:05 ` Bart Veer
2003-02-26 16:11 ` Gary Thomas
2003-02-26 16:44 ` Bart Veer [this message]
2003-02-26 16:56 ` Jonathan Larmour
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