Re: pcdig fpga files

["M.Stein" <matthias@gom.com>]

At first to all:

Sorry for the longer unanswered mails, but I was on vacation for one and a
half week!

And now:

Hello Mike!

Your are right: I have coded some crap and now we have a deadlock!
Please comment out the VERSION ioctl in convert_fpgafile().

On 3 Feb 2000, Mike wrote:

> 
> I finally got the IFC software disk, so have some .exo files.
> 
> However, I am unable to configure the board per the directions in 
> the 0.6.0a distribution: config_pcdig fails with an ENXIO error.
> It appears that, in convert_fpgafile() it does an ioctl to get the
> version number; an ioctl which the driver rejects because the fpga
> file hasn't been loaded yet.   I seem to be able to work around this
> by commenting out the version checking stuff in convert.c, but how 
> is this supposed to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> mike
> 

At last some good news (not really for you, because you have already
payed the money):

	Out german distriburor says: The fpga-files (*.exo) are for free!
	So the next version can include this files without copyright
	problems.

					matthias