[Haifux] Lecture about PCI?

[Zaar Hai]

Oh, that's a good idea! I'm interested.
It will be great to make some order in my head redrawing that PCI
thing. I'll be glad to hear about both PCI and PCIe. And your lecture
agenda sounds just right.

On 15 בפבר 2011, at 23:33, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> These days I'm working on making a PCI Express interface in hardware (FPGA) and writing a Linux driver for it. When I'll be done with that, I suppose I'll know a thing or two about the PCI bus.
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> Now, not that it's something to happen in the near future, but I just wondered: What's the level of interest in a lecture about PCI (or more like PCI Express?). I'm talking about the hardware (and protocol) principles of a PCI vs PCIe buses (which are completely different), a bird's view on the configuration of a PCI device ("plug and play", done by BIOS for most of us), then a bit about bus mastering and DMA, and wrap it all up with describing the anatomy of a Linux PCI driver. Just so one knows what it's trying to accomplish when reading the source. Ah, and we also have IRQ's and MSI's. A lot of fun, in short.
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> This is a pretty heavy lecture to prepare, but if I'll see you guys here getting crazy about the idea, I'll consider it. :)
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>  Eli
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