The fatal error Let’s break the bad news: Spartan-6′s PCIe core may drop TLP packets sporadically when ASPM (Active State Power Management) is enabled. That means that any TLP given to the core for transmission can silently disappear, as if it was never submitted. I also suspect that the problem exists in the opposite direction. [...]
Making a custom ISO image. It turns out it’s no so difficult to make a custom LiveCD / LiveDVD / LiveUSB, even if that includes making small hacks in the target system’s outline. Just follow this guide. Creating the liveUSB Create a liveUSB from a liveDVD image with liveusb-creator. Download the ISO image, don’t let [...]
This is just a collection of jots I ( = a Drupal newbie) wrote down as I set up a site with Drupal 7.2. Don’t expect this to be more coherent than a typical shopping list. March 2019 update: Drupal was a huge mistake. Just in case someone out there still has a chance to [...]
Surprisingly enough, I haven’t found a plain and simple cookbook on how to generate a presynthesized IP core for delivery. So I tried it out, and wrote my findings here. Since it’s a result of trial and error, I may have missed some crucial points. Please comment below if you know about such. Synthesis In [...]
Introduction I use USB flash sticks for backing up my system periodically by creating an image of the filesystem, and raw-writing it directly to e.g. /dev/sdd1. It’s just a matter of time before I wipe my hard disk by selecting the wrong /dev/something. Or just some other USB stick that happened to be plugged in. [...]
This is just a raw dump of PCIe communication. I wrote a small sniffer on an FPGA and ran some data in a loop to and from the peripheral. The sniffer’s own data was stored while sniffing, so it doesn’t appear in the stream. The whole thing ran on a Linux machine. I thought that [...]
I know that most character drivers don’t implement the flush() method, and the more I deal with it, the more I understand why. But unfortunately, in certain modes of operation flushing is necessary, so I implemented it. One of the problems with flush() is that it’s called when the file is closed automatically as the [...]
This really is a note to future self. All of the sudden, terminal windows on my Fedora 12 ceased to respect num lock, shift and CTRL modifiers, and I somehow figured out that it may have something to do with the fact that I was having a Vmplayer machine running. It’s noted a lot elsewhere, [...]