Re: MIDI and PCMCIA

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:34:42 -0400,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >struct.  (although it has a xilinx firmware loading routine).
> 
> just to make sure there is no misinformation going around: the
> "firmware" loaded by the hdsp driver has nothing to do with the xilinx
> fpga. its not even really "firmware" in the conventional sense. its
> actually configuration data for the i/o box attached to the pci/pcmcia
> card, and is written to the already running fpga, which passes it
> through/writes it to the i/o box. you can have a "running" hdsp card
> with no i/o box, but that's hardly what you'd call useful :)

thanks for the clarification.

for more notes about xilinx chip: in the case of vx-pocket drivers,
the xilinx chip works as a kind of boot-strapping.  so, in this case,
the firmware to start up the xilinx chip is necessary to make the main
dsp chip accessible through it.


Takashi


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