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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Yosemite/440EP 'issues' as a PCI target
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:06:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602110906.05547.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ECD753.5000105@ovro.caltech.edu>

Hi David,

On Friday 10 February 2006 19:11, David Hawkins wrote:
> > Just use newer host CPU's! ;-)
>
> Ah, the words of a true engineer :)
>
> Of course the project manager wouldn't appreciate me doing that.
>
> However, its not totally out of the question ... $50 per 21555
> and 20 per crate, thats $1000, about half the price of
> a CPU. But of course, without the I20 unit on the 440EP,
> I might need the 21555 anyway.

Do you really need this I2O unit? You could easily create some message 
ringbuffers, one in the 440EP's SDRAM for the host-to-440 messages and one in 
the host-cpu SDRAM for the 440-to-host messages. This way, all messages will 
be transferred using pci writes.

Best regards,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-11  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-02  9:35 Yosemite/440EP why are readl()/ioread32() setup to readlittle-endian? Jenkins, Clive
2006-02-02  9:46 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-02-02 14:37   ` Matt Porter
2006-02-02 17:45     ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-02-02 18:16       ` Matt Porter
2006-02-05  4:41         ` Yosemite/440EP PLB4 vs PLB3 DMA to PCI issue David Hawkins
2006-02-05 10:39           ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-02-05 23:47             ` David Hawkins
2006-02-06 18:31               ` Stefan Roese
2006-02-06 19:09                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-08 15:38                   ` Stefan Roese
2006-02-08 18:43                     ` David Hawkins
2006-02-09  0:34                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-02-09 13:25                         ` Mark Chambers
2006-02-09 23:58                         ` Yosemite/440EP 'issues' as a PCI target David Hawkins
2006-02-10  7:47                           ` Stefan Roese
2006-02-10 17:05                             ` David Hawkins
2006-02-10 17:20                               ` Andrew Armitage
2006-02-10 17:26                                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-10 17:31                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-02-10 17:38                                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-10 17:58                                   ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11  6:03                                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11  8:21                                   ` Stefan Roese
2006-02-11 18:15                                     ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11 13:03                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-02-10 17:59                               ` Stefan Roese
2006-02-10 18:11                                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11  8:06                                   ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2006-02-11 18:06                                     ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11 19:00                                     ` David Hawkins
     [not found]                               ` <43ECCCA2.1070007@sandburst.com>
     [not found]                                 ` <43ECCE7A.4090507@ovro.caltech.edu>
     [not found]                                   ` <43ECD19E.8010604@sandburst.com>
2006-02-10 19:13                                     ` David Hawkins
     [not found]                               ` <001701c62e6c$09c48ea0$6401a8c0@CHUCK2>
2006-02-10 18:19                                 ` David Hawkins
2006-02-11  6:06                                 ` David Hawkins

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