20 Mar
2003
20 Mar
'03
5:01 p.m.
On Thursday 20 March 2003 16.57, Ranjit Singh wrote:
When you say "available as binaries" I take it that it's still
running on board the card's ROM? (ie microcode implemented within
the card, not the host.)
No, there are no ROMs. The DSP code (and ASIC code, for some models)
has to be uploaded by the driver. No big deal, though. The only issue
is that we have to drag all that binary code around with the drivers.
Anyway, I believe this goes for a bunch of other cards as well, so no
news here, really.
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We're effectively talking about a driver for the
Motorola DSP
onboard (I can't remember what the no is.)
No, that stuff is "secret". The microcode is available only as raw
binaries, and the driver's job is to talk to the microcode; not
the hardware directly. So, we're talking about Linux kernel space
only; no DSP code.