Re: "Home Grown" Daughterboards for Sale?
"Dr. Craig Hollabaugh" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.uclinux.actiontec |
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| Message-ID | <1079560123.3955.1.camel@h> |
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 14:32, Bruce D. Lightner wrote: > The microcontroller behaves like an I/O processor and does all the > handshaking with the Compact Flash card under control of the ARM9 > processor, via some kind of data/control channel. > > (1) Parallel mode: Let's use 2 of the 8 8-bit registers, one for control > and one for data. > > (2) Serial mode: Add a second UART and talk to the I/O microcontroller via > serial (1 Mbits/sec is probably the max.) > It seems like a lot of work, what's your application? > How I'm I really gonna' do it...haven't decided yet, but I'm leaning > toward an FPGA solution because it probably will have better throughput. > > To make any of this work, one needs to "re-gen" the Actiontec uClinux > kernel so I can add a new driver! This is always a pain. Keep going, somehow they did it and you can too. Craig ps. I have not tried to compile the Actiontec kernel __ ActionHack Mailing List - ActionHack-W7/[email protected] http://www.express.org/mailman/listinfo/actionhack http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/wiki.php/ActiontecDualModem