Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: dts: socfpga: fpga bridges bindings docs

Mark Brown
2014-10-27T17:18:54Z

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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:45:03PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

Please fix your mail client to word wrap at less than 80 columns.

> Well, it’s not my speciality, but my understanding is that FPGAs take (considerable)
> time to be programmed. If someone has already configured the ‘bus’ it is considered
> a win to not reload the bitstream. I.e. if you boot with the bootloader having loaded
> the bitstream already, you don’t want to do it again.

That's not what your property is saying, though - if it were just about
handover between the bootloader and the kernel that'd be one thing but
it's also got this additional possibility to instruct the kernel that
the device must be either disabled or explicitly programmed. Having a
property that just says "this FPGA is programmed" covers the handover
case but this property does more than that.

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