linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] fpga manager: add sysfs interface document

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:44:37 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] fpga manager: add sysfs interface document

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:36:17AM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

> yes - there is a model for this in Linux already. Some of the audio
> subsystems have "firmware" files distributed which are actually a
> structured file that userspace parses to get a real set of firmware for
> the controller and a set of descriptions for things like mixer controls.

We didn't actually merge that yet (but we do want to).  It's likely that
the parsing of the files will end up in the kernel rather than userspace,
or that anything userspace is doing is mostly about translating vendor
formats into a standard Linux one anyway.

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