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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/misc: Altera Cyclone active serial implementation
Hi hpa,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:11:49AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/03/2010 07:21 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > From: Alex Gershgorin <agersh@rambler.ru>
> >
> > The active serial protocol can be used to program Altera Cyclone FPGA devices.
> > This driver uses the kernel gpio interface to implement the active serial
> > protocol.
>
> Calling it "Cyclone" is a bit misleading. This protocol is used by
> Stratix, Cyclone and Arria devices (at least), and it probably depends
> more on the generation than on the product line which exact version of
> the protocol it is.
>
> If anything it would probably be more accurate to call it a Statix
> protocol, or just an Altera one.

I see. I think I'll rename it to altera_as, for Altera active serial.

baruch

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