On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:00:50AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Yeah, we could limit it to run only 512 times (or some other reasonable > quantity), but in order to do that, we need to be sure that, on each read(), > the FIFO will shift - e. g. no risk of needing to do more than one read > to get the next element. That would work if the FIFO is implemented via > flip-flops. But if it is implemented via some slow memory, or if the > shift logic is implemented via some software on a micro-controller, it > may need a few interactions to get the next value. > > Without knowing about the hardware implementation, I'd say that setting > a max time for the whole FIFO interaction is safer. Ok. If the 10ms timeout is reached, there really is a problem; should we report an error in this case? Thanks Sean
