I have a V4FX12 application that could potentially benefit from having Gbytes of ROM data storage easily changeable through a CF card, so the system ACE CF thing looks sort of interesting.
We are trying to put together SW on a ML403 board based on xilkernel and the lwip ethernet stack. I am wondering how hard it would be to give the app access to a big table of data on the CF card.
Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I've seen no example designs or drivers for accessing the system ACE short of MontaVista Linux. I've read the white paper and system ACE FAQ and skimmed the datasheet. They don't come right out and say it, but give the impression that the app must have FAT file system awareness to use the CF card. It would be great if there were some simple way of accessing big table of read-only data (as the configuration functionality obviously does).
Has anyone here used the system ACE for generic storage? How was the experience?
thanks, Jeff