From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: atull Subject: Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:47:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1477283989-21947-1-git-send-email-joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> <1477283989-21947-2-git-send-email-joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joel Holdsworth Cc: ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, moritz.fischer@ettus.com, pawel.moll@arm.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Joel Holdsworth wrote: > > > Hi Joel, > > > > Thanks for submitting your driver! > > > > I didn't see any huge problems, just minor things below... > > > > Alan > > > > Hi Alan, Thanks for your feedback. I've implemented all your suggestions and > I'll resubmit. > > I had a question about the status of the fpga-manager framework. Is there > active work going on? I was wondering if there were any patches for specifying > a firmware file from device-tree? Yes! I have submitted patches for doing exactly that. About to submit v21. Here's patch 1 of v20: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9379859/ > and/or if there were any patches for loading > firmware from userspace - something like this: "cat firmware.bin > > /dev/fpga0"? We discussed doing a char driver interface. That's where all this started. It met with lots of resistance. > > Only being able to load firmware from kernel C-code is rather a limitation - > though I suppose the framework is quite early in development. > > Thanks > Joel >