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Re: Help getting started: PCI/USB
- From: Robin Randhawa <robin dot randhawa at gmail dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Cc: stevemors at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:49:59 +0530
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Help getting started: PCI/USB
- References: <54c370270604061418g739a050bl5605251f984477a2@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 07 April 2006 02:48, stevemors@gmail.com wrote:
> I have been tasked with a project that involves a PCI-to-USB slave
> device on a PC platform. This is supposed to allow the PC to act as a
> USB slave.
Chipsets that provide a USB Host controller Interface AND a slave device
interface are becoming increasingly common. Not surprising to see a slave
only interface for PCs. Would aid slave side USB development I guess.
> 1. Would the driver for this device be a USB driver wrapped in a PCI
> driver? Would I look at existing eCos PCI and USB drivers and create
> some sort of hybrid of these?
As Andrew pointed out, there aren't any drivers for PCI per se. PCI is a
busing scheme that allows access to peripheral memory with a view to
dynamically mapping the devices in the CPU's address space and also allowing
access to the device's configuration space.
In order to use PCI as an access mechanism, a PCI Host controller needs to be
setup and that is usually done first by the BIOS.
> 2. The PC bios configures the PCI bus and devices. This means CPU-PCI
> address translation is unknown to eCos, correct? How can I fill in
> this information when this configuration has been skipped? (Doesn't
> redboot have to do this?)
The address mappings done for each PCI-accessible device are done via device
specific Base Address Registers. These are filled in by the BIOS as a
temporary mapping to allow stuff like ethernet controllers etc to work at
boot-time. The BARs are re-written by the OS as deemed necessary. I would
think that eCos would do the same to suit the address map of the platform in
question.
The key here is to understand that a USB Slave controller is a USB device that
is accessible to the CPU via a PCI bus.
Cheers,
Robin
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