On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:23, Scott Anderson wrote:

David Gibson wrote:

quoted

Eek, wibble.  It still seems somewhat unlikely to me that you'd be
changing the peripherals "on the fly" in a real life embedded
application.  Especially considering that reboots are likely to be
much less of an issue on an embedded system than on a big server.

I guess I wouldn't be quite so quick to dismiss this as unlikely, but
I must admit, my crystal ball is in the shop this week.  It sure would
be nice to keep such things in mind as OCP is evolving, though.

As someone who actually work with FPGA chips I can assure everyone that
those are always to small even when you pick one that seems insanely
large when you start. I have many times been in a situation when is
could work quite well to have mutually exclusive subsystem but what has
stopped that before is that the chips/software usually do not support
partial reconfiguration and you usually can't reconfigure the whole part
without disturbing normal functions.

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