From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx.dlasys.net (24.152.213.223.res-cmts.eph.ptd.net [24.152.213.223]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7020067B6B for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:20:28 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4509E2B5.2070202@dlasys.net> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:16:05 -0400 From: "David H. Lynch Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith J Outwater Subject: Re: Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Keith J Outwater wrote: >> Hi, > > I don't think that there are any "version" registers in the Xilinx > IP cores that a driver could check to determine compatibility. That > would be very cheap to implement in hardware and you could then > develop more universal drivers. > > Some of the IP's do, some don't - and then some might. Some of the documentation isn't too bad, some is almost un-uasable. -- Dave Lynch DLA Systems Software Development: Embedded Linux 717.627.3770 dhlii@dlasys.net http://www.dlasys.net fax: 1.253.369.9244 Cell: 1.717.587.7774 Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein