Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

>Hi JMKasunich and SWPadnos, would you mind if I added support for the 
>7i43 (EPP) board to bfload?  The structure of bfload makes it look like 
>it could be done pretty cleanly.
>  
>
I have no objection to adding that functionality.  One question about 
programming via parallel - can you detect the chip type over that 
interface?  For PCI boards, we can use the PCI enumeration functions to 
look for known board IDs, and refuse to program if either the correct 
board type isn't found (like 5i20 vs 5i22), or if the correct FPGA isn't 
found, based on the type in the bitfle.  Basically bfload is "safe" 
right now - you can't program some other manufacturer's board, and you 
can't load a bitfile into a chip it wasn't meant for.  If this is still 
possible with the parallel port programming scheme, then I'm all for 
adding it.  If not, then I'm still mostly for it, but would have some 
concerns about how to do it right :)

>Also I want to add support for the remaining PCI-like Anything IO boards 
>over the next few months.
>  
>
That should just be a change to the board ID and chip type table.

>Questions/Comments/Concerns?
>  
>
Some ;)

Thanks for all the work on this
- Steve


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