On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 21:43 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: ... snip > I'm not sure why I couldn't get the LAVA parport chipset to work with > the 7i43, but i agree with Peter's assessment: it's something the > hm2_7i43 driver is doing wrong. I think the next debugging step is to > trace Linux's somewhat convoluted parport driver and see how it does it. > > The only PCI parport i got to work with the 7i43 was the OXSEMI PCI952, > which ran flawlessly as long as EPP Wide mode was disabled. In this > mode the parport I/O is just as fast as normal, it just takes slightly > more CPU to do it. ... snip > And the loadrt line looks like this: > > loadrt hm2_7i43 ioaddr=0xdcb8 ioaddr_hi=0xdca4 epp_wide=0 > config="firmware=hm2/7i43/SVST4_4B.BIT"
I don't think I'll ever understand how these FPGA's work, but I am curious, Pluto uses Altera, the 7i43 uses Xilinx, each with its particular driver, no other driver is loaded, since both seem to have the same problem, is there something in common between the two FPGA systems that might be causing the problem or are we just lucky? Does this problem show up only with EMC2 or RTAI? From a brief search, it seems that FPGA development is not very open-source friendly, that doesn't sound like a good thing. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users