Re: "Home Grown" Daughterboards for Sale?

"Dr. Craig Hollabaugh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.uclinux.actiontec
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

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