Messages in this thread | | | From | Laurent Pinchart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/18] Altera FPGA firmware download module. | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:12:18 +0100 |
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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 ?
-- Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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