linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/1] FPGA subsystem core

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Message-ID: <524FB678.4020405@monstr.eu>
Date:	Sat, 05 Oct 2013 08:49:28 +0200
From:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Tull <atull@...era.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>,
	Philip Balister <philip@...ister.org>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>,
	Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@...gutronix.de>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Yves Vandervennet <rocket.yvanderv@...il.com>,
	Kyle Teske <kyle.teske@...com>,
	Josh Cartwright <joshc@....teric.us>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
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	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
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	Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/1] FPGA subsystem core

On 10/05/2013 01:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 04:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>
>> Ideally I thought this would be just like "firmware", you dump the file
>> to the FPGA, it validates it and away you go with a new image running in
>> the chip.
>>
>> But, it sounds like this is much more complicated, so much so that
>> configfs might be the correct interface for it, as you can do lots of
>> things there, and it is very flexible (some say too flexible...)
>>
>> A char device, with a zillion different custom ioctls is also a way to
>> do it, but one that I really want to avoid as that gets messy really
>> quickly.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure that a zillion custom ioctls are necessary, but I think we
> really need to get a better understanding of the various usage cases
> (and there are going to be ones where an "FPGA driver" simply makes no
> sense at all.)

Isn't this a reason to add this to staging area a see where this can go?

Thanks,
Michal

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