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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:47:06 +0100
Subject: Re: extra large DMA buffer for PCI-E device under UIO
From: "Rolf Eike Beer" <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: "Jean-Francois Dagenais" <jeff.dagenais@gmail.com>
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> The pci ID we use is not registered, and except for this driver, which
> is a non-driver really (UIO), the FPGA firmware and the userspace code is
> proprietary.

Why keep people doing this? This is just asking for future trouble. And it
gives bad karma.

Go and ask your FPGA vendor to assign a device id to you. At least for
Xilinx this has worked.

Eike