Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] FPGA Manager Framework and Simple FPGA Bus

atull
2015-07-17T18:09:12Z

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:51:10AM -0500, atull@opensource.altera.com wrote:
> > From: Alan Tull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
> >
> > This patchset adds two chunks plus documentation:
> > * fpga manager core: exports ABI functions that write an image to a FPGA
> > * DT Overlay support: simple-fpga-bus to handle FPGA from a DT overlay
>
> I didn't read super closely, but overall it makes sense to me..
>
> Providing an in-kernel API will let someone else figure out how to
> expose that to user space. The DT based scheme seems pretty nice.
>

Thanks!

> Can you use this without DT overlay? Ie if I provide the FGPA
> description as part of my boot time DT will it just work?

The simple fpga bus would need to defer probing until after the fpga
manager driver and bridge drivers are probed (that's easy). Since it is
using firmware, it will also have to defer until the filesystem is
available so it can get the fpga image to load. I'll work on it.

Alan

>
> Jason
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