Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > Easy for ethernet where you have shared media and switches, but what about > > ptp synchronous serial lines? Oh dear thats a problem isnt it 8) > Not, if one have two USARTs, receivers paralleled & syncronized, transmitters > wired-

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Vitaly Luban
Dan Hollis wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote: > > One may have cPCI configuration with two or more NICs on each side > > of the router, with dynamic IP reallocation and hotswap that's make sense > > IMHO. > > Easy for ethernet where you have shared media and switches, but what abou

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical machines for linux routers > > just so they can hotswap NICs? What have you been putting in your tea > > lately 8) > [...] > One may have cPCI configuration with two or more NICs on each s

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Vitaly Luban
Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd disagree on the ISP thing too btw. Telcos care a lot about hotswap PCI, > > but ISP services you can take a down box with a failover of a machine - > > which in general is a lot easier and overall better coverage > > Alan, you want

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes you can failover your mail server, but your core linux routers are > another story and thats where hotswap really counts. Customers can > tolerate short mailserver outages but they cant tolerate short router > outages. Then they shouldnt be using the internet for a few more years ;) I see

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > I'd disagree on the ISP thing too btw. Telcos care a lot about hotswap PCI, > but ISP services you can take a down box with a failover of a machine - > which in general is a lot easier and overall better coverage Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-21 Thread Alan Cox
> } On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adrian Cox wrote: > } > cPCI is PCI + hotswap. Most people seem to ignore the hotswap, except at > } > tradeshows. > } > } ISPs certainly don't ignore hotswap. Unfortunately, Linux does. :) :( > > PowerPC has hotswap for Motorola boards thanks to Johnnie Peters and Matt

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Cort Dougan
} On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adrian Cox wrote: } > cPCI is PCI + hotswap. Most people seem to ignore the hotswap, except at } > tradeshows. } } ISPs certainly don't ignore hotswap. Unfortunately, Linux does. :) :( PowerPC has hotswap for Motorola boards thanks to Johnnie Peters and Matt Porter. - To u

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adrian Cox wrote: > cPCI is PCI + hotswap. Most people seem to ignore the hotswap, except at > tradeshows. ISPs certainly don't ignore hotswap. Unfortunately, Linux does. :) :( -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Adrian Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am I right in assumming that 2.2.14 (as from RH6.2) supports cPCI? Or do I > need to start developing on 2.4? > > I really do need to do some research into this, if I knew where to start. I > need some docs! (either paper, URL, or the straight-jacket kind) cPCI is PCI

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Vitaly Luban
Ondrej Feela Filip wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Am I right in assumming that 2.2.14 (as from RH6.2) supports cPCI? Or do I > > need to start developing on 2.4? > > ? I believe, that PCI and cPCI are from SW view identical. I run linux > (2.2.13+) on many cPCI system

RE: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Justin . Skists
; From: Russell King [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm about to embark on some compact-PCI driver development for Linux and > I > > was wondering where I can find some info. Is there any difference > between > > PCI and cPCI developme

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-18 Thread Russell King
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm about to embark on some compact-PCI driver development for Linux and I > was wondering where I can find some info. Is there any difference between > PCI and cPCI development on Linux? > > URLs would be great! Or, if this is the wrong list fo

cPCI development

2000-09-18 Thread Justin . Skists
Hi. I'm about to embark on some compact-PCI driver development for Linux and I was wondering where I can find some info. Is there any difference between PCI and cPCI development on Linux? URLs would be great! Or, if this is the wrong list for driver development issues, a pointer to the co