Subject: Re: Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403

From: "David H. Lynch Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:16:05 -0400

Keith J Outwater wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> I don't think that there are any "version" registers in the Xilinx 
> IP cores that a driver could check to determine compatibility.  That
> would be very cheap to implement in hardware and you could then
> develop more universal drivers.
>
>   
    Some of the IP's do, some don't - and then some might.
    Some of the documentation isn't too bad, some is almost un-uasable.

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