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Michael Galassi wrote:
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It is also worth noting that as released in MVL pro 4.0.1 it only
supports hard_temac 1.00.a and plb_temac 2.00.a, both of which are
tagged as deprecated in the current version (8.2.01i) of Xilinx's
EDK. The current version of {plb,hard}_temac (3.00.a) goes to great
lengths to break compatibility with older versions. This will
presumably be fixed next month when it is rumored that wonderful new
things will come from Xilinx. In the mean-time it is possible, though
neither simple, nor fun, to create Virtex4 designs with the older IP.
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Fortunately, I have little to do with the firmware. <br>
Unfortunately, after the firmware is in the product, I am the guy
who has to make the drivers work.<br>
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I am also not straight - though I am somewhat clearer, on exactly
what any given flavor of TEMAC is.<br>
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As best as I can tell, the V4 FX chipsets contain some dedicated
hardware that forms the basis for the TEMAC.<br>
(or possibly several TEMAC's depending on how it is built).<br>
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Separately Xilinx provides a plethora of wrapper logic, that allows
you to implement a slew of different incarnations.<br>
All similar yet different at the same time. Ranging from the Local
Link TEMAC which is the simplest to the <br>
PLB SG DMA driven TEMAC which is probably the most complex.<br>
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Then there is an assortment of PDF's from Xilinx, none of which
quite match whatever you might have.<br>
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And at the risk of Goring somebodies Ox, the MV/EDK based drivers
may/may not have the attribute of <br>
being portable accross multiple OS's, but they seem to pretty much
deliberately violate almost every style <br>
quideline for Linux drivers. Linux is written in C, not
preprocessor Macros.<br>
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For anyone at MV I have ticked off - Sorry, I am sure it is
brilliantly written preprocessor Macros.<br>
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-michael
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