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Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs

From Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs
Date 2016-10-25 18:40 +0200
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Hi Alan

 > 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/

That's really cool. I hope it gets accepted.




 >> 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.
 >

Yeah I saw some slides about it. Personally I don't care too much about 
the character device thing. It could be something in sysfs - anything 
that allows the user to inject firmware firmware from user-space.


Joel

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[v2 1/2] of: Add vendor prefix for Lattice Semiconductor Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> - 2016-10-24 07:10 +0200
  [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> - 2016-10-24 07:10 +0200
    Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2016-10-25 00:40 +0200
      Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> - 2016-10-25 07:00 +0200
        Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2016-10-25 18:50 +0200
    Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> - 2016-10-25 07:10 +0200
      Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Joel Holdsworth <joel@airwebreathe.org.uk> - 2016-10-25 18:40 +0200
      Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2016-10-25 18:40 +0200

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