From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: "Igor M. Liplianin" <liplianin@me.by>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] Altera FPGA firmware download module.
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:12:18 +0100
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Hi Igor,

On Friday 31 December 2010 06:26:31 Igor M. Liplianin wrote:
> It uses STAPL files and programs Altera FPGA through JTAG.
> Interface to JTAG must be provided from main device module,
> for example through cx23885 GPIO.

It might be a bit late for this comment (sorry for not having noticed the 
patch set earlier), but...

Do we really need a complete JTAG implementation in the kernel ? Wouldn't it 
better to handle this in userspace with a tiny kernel driver to access the 
JTAG signals ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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