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12 years ago

Simple PCI Driver for Arria V SoC Card, or Stratix IV card?

[sorry if you've read this before - the original thread got messed up somehow] Hi - I alluded to this in a prior post but it's become my principal issue. I want to do simple read/write transac...
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12 years ago

Hi Dave - we're almost on the same page. If I went the 2-cards+cable route, it's because my master is on the PC, and I'm trying to not use the ARM on the SoC chip at all. The OneStopSystems site -says- you don't need any drivers for their cards, but you're right that the devil is in the details. Still - I don't see this as a first-choice path so enough said.

Agreed that if I DID boot Linux on the SoC on the dev. board the connection to the world would be Ethernet. Never thought anything different. :-)

Looking at Rocketboards now. Thanks!

/j