From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: MIDI and PCMCIA Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:34:51 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: Giuliano Pochini , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php