linux-kernel - Re: extra large DMA buffer for PCI-E device under UIO

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:47:06 +0100
From:	"Rolf Eike Beer" <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	"Jean-Francois Dagenais" <jeff.dagenais@...il.com>
Cc:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>, gregkh@...e.de,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	"open list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: extra large DMA buffer for PCI-E device under UIO

> The pci ID we use is not registered, and except for this driver, which
> is a non-driver really (UIO), the FPGA firmware and the userspace code is
> proprietary.

Why keep people doing this? This is just asking for future trouble. And it
gives bad karma.

Go and ask your FPGA vendor to assign a device id to you. At least for
Xilinx this has worked.

Eike
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