Em 31-12-2010 09:12, Laurent Pinchart escreveu: > Hi Igor, > > On Friday 31 December 2010 06:26:31 Igor M. Liplianin wrote: >> It uses STAPL files and programs Altera FPGA through JTAG. >> Interface to JTAG must be provided from main device module, >> for example through cx23885 GPIO. > > It might be a bit late for this comment (sorry for not having noticed the > patch set earlier), but... > > Do we really need a complete JTAG implementation in the kernel ? Wouldn't it > better to handle this in userspace with a tiny kernel driver to access the > JTAG signals ? > Laurent, Igor already explained it. From what I understood, the device he is working has a firmware that needs to be loaded via JTAG/FPGA. Actually, I liked the idea, as the FPGA programming driver could be useful if other drivers have similar usecases. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
