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Message-Id: <200901082357.24432.florian@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:57:21 +0100
From: Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
Cc: "Thiago Galesi" <thiagogalesi@...il.com>,
"Hugo Villeneuve" <hugo@...ovil.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FPGA programming driver architecture
Hello,
Le Thursday 08 January 2009 23:47:58 Leon Woestenberg, vous avez écrit :
> Indeed.
>
> The programming back end should be generic enough so that it can use
> other subsystems.
>
> The FPGA configuration interface could be on the memory bus (and in
> many cases the DMA helpers can be used) or behind a PCI bus, or can
> even have SPI etc front-ends.
>
> In general the programming API should accept a blob of data,
> preferably in one chunk (pointer plus length) or at least 4kB chunks
> or so, so that configuration is not severy overheaded by a callback
> per byte (or even bit).
That's the idea behind using request_firmware, which provides you with both a
pointer to the data and the size of the blob.
--
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@...nwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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