[Haifux] Lecture about PCI?

[guy keren]

"me too".

are you sure a single lecture will suffice for these two topics (i.e.
both hardware coverage, and PCI drivers coverage)? also, since the
drivers coverage will probably assume basic knowledge of writing
drivers, while the hardware thing can be interesting to
non-kernel-programmers as well - it may be logical to split this in two.

--guy

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:33 +0200, Eli Billauer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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. :)
> 
> 
>    Eli
>