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Excuse my ignorance.

Hi!
Open Cores PCI can be a host.
Actually, if you read the specification, you will notice mentioning of
HOST / GUEST implementations throughout the document.

Best regards,
Miha Dolenc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <samuel.bayliss@g...>
To: <pci@o...>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: [pci] PCI host controller

> Excuse my ignorance. 
> 
> I'm approaching this knowing nothing about PCI. 
> 
> Can the open-cores PCI ip be used as a host-controller?
> 
> I intend to implement a microblaze system within a spartan-3 processor. 
> It would be nice to have a PCI socket on my board, inplement PCI 
> controller in hardware (w/ software support) and to plug in a pci video 
> card - write some new drivers and have a working display. 
> 
> Something tells me this may not be that simple - all the commercial PCI 
> cores I have seen seem to target PCI cards plugging into a PC 
> motherboard. 
> 
> Can anyone set my ignorance straight - what would I need to do to 
> implement a PCI host controller in hardware. 
> 
> Kindest Regards
> 
> Samuel Bayliss
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