Re: FPGA programming driver architecture

["Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> wrote:
> Le Thursday 08 January 2009 23:47:58 Leon Woestenberg, vous avez écrit :

>> The programming back end should be generic enough so that it can use
>> other subsystems.
>>
> That's the idea behind using request_firmware, which provides you with both a
> pointer to the data and the size of the blob.

I know, that's what I would call the front-end (near userspace).

I meant the low-level back-end (towards hardware):

> - fpgaload-core which contains all the code that can be shared
> between the drivers like requesting firmware, providing sysfs
> attributes,
> - fpgaload-spi would handle the low-level SPI connection
> - fpgaload-par would handle the low-level parallel connection
>
> fpgaload-ser and par would register with fpgaload-core and they could
> register a fpga loading callback which is low-level specific for
> instance.

My $0.02 was:

Those callbacks should also be able to accept chunks of data
(preferably in the same way using ptr/len).


Regards,
-- 
Leon