On Oct 24, 9:59 am, Vagant <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 3:23 pm, John McCaskill <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 7:26 am, Vagant <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On Oct 24, 12:58 pm, [email protected] wrote:
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> > > > >> This is a software problem, not an FPGA problem.
> > > > >Well, could you give an advice where to start learning how to write a
> > > > >driver?
> > > > >and how to configure a driver?
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> > > > You're in the wrong newsgroup.
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> > > ...and this is why the right direction was asked. But never mind!
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> > If you are using Linux, get "Linux Device Drivers". You can get a free
> > pdf of it here:
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> >http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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> > Regards,
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> > John McCaskillwww.fastertechnology.com
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> Thank you for the link. I want to use Linux as an OS running on host.
> However, I wonder whether
> a system designed using ISE WebPack under Windows will be working with
> Linux.

The OS that you are running the FPGA tools under does not lock your
design to having to be hosted by the same OS.

We produce PCI cards with Virtex-4 FX FPGAs on them. See www.fastertechnology.com
for more info on them. We run EDK, ISE, ModelSim, and ImpulseC on
Windows computers. We only support Linux for the PCI cards host and
embedded OS. The fact that we use Windows to compile the FPGA bit
streams does cause problems with using those bit streams in a Linux
environment.

Regards,

John McCaskill
www.fastertechnology.com