From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21942 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2003 16:44:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21935 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 16:44:49 -0000 To: gary@mlbassoc.com Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <1046275913.31018.6295.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> (message from Gary Thomas on 26 Feb 2003 09:11:53 -0700) Subject: Re: Another copyright issue From: Bart Veer References: <1046272511.31018.6102.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> <20030226160243.95BD4EC6F1@delenn.bartv.net> <1046275913.31018.6295.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Message-Id: <20030226164202.93699EC6F1@delenn.bartv.net> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:44:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Thomas writes: 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