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Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface

From Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface
Date 2017-02-15 19:00 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:46:01AM -0600, Alan Tull wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:14:20AM -0600, Alan Tull wrote:
> >> Add a sysfs interface to control programming FPGA.
> >>
> >> Each fpga-region will get the following files which set values
> >> in the fpga_image_info struct for that region.  More files will
> >> need to be added as fpga_image_info expands.
> >>
> >> firmware_name
> >> * writing a name of a FPGA image file to firmware_name causes the
> >>   FPGA region to write the FPGA
> >>
> >> partial_config
> >> * 0 : full reconfiguration
> >> * 1 : partial reconfiguration
> >
> > This is really a property of the bitfile. It would be really nice to
> > have a saner system for describing the bitfiles that doesn't rely on
> > so much out of band stuff.

Agreed.
> >
> > Eg when doing partial reconfiguration it would be really sane to have
> > some checks that the full bitfile is the correct basis for the partial
> > bitfile.
> >
> > It also seems link Zynq needs an encrypted/not encrypted flag..

Well, we could also run always at half rate and not benefit from faster
config for the non-encrypted case ;-)

> > I wonder if we should require a Linux specific header on the bitfile
> > instead? That would make the bitfile self describing at least.

> I agree.  I've heard some discussions about adding a header.  We would
> want it to not be manufacturer or fpga device specific. That would be
> nice and would eliminate some of this struct.  We would need a tool to
> add the header, given a bitstream and some info about the bitstream.
> If the tool communicated seamlessly with vendor's tools that would be
> nice, but that is complicated to get that to happen.  So far nobody
> has posted their proposals to the mailing list.

Well, there's not that many vendors out there. If we can figure out a
format and stick to it, keep it reasonably extensible, 'the vendors'
will eventually adopt it.

Cheers,

Moritz

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[RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org> - 2017-02-15 17:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-15 18:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 18:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-15 19:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-15 19:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 19:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-15 19:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-15 20:50 +0100
            Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 00:00 +0100
              Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-16 00:10 +0100
          Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface matthew.gerlach@linux.intel.com - 2017-02-15 21:10 +0100
            Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-15 21:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-15 22:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-15 22:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-15 22:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 23:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-16 01:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 18:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-16 19:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-16 19:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Yves Vandervennet <yves.vandervennet@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-17 23:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-18 03:40 +0100
                RE: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface "Nadathur, Sundar" <sundar.nadathur@intel.com> - 2017-02-18 13:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-18 21:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-18 22:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-19 16:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-20 00:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-21 01:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 19:40 +0100
                RE: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface "Nadathur, Sundar" <sundar.nadathur@intel.com> - 2017-02-22 04:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 04:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-22 06:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 06:40 +0100
                RE: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface "Nadathur, Sundar" <sundar.nadathur@intel.com> - 2017-02-22 06:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 07:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-22 17:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 19:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-22 19:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 19:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 17:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-22 17:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 18:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> - 2017-02-28 00:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface matthew.gerlach@linux.intel.com - 2017-02-28 07:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Alan Tull <delicious.quinoa@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 13:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC 7/8] fpga-region: add sysfs interface Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> - 2017-02-15 22:30 +0100

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