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Date:   Wed,  2 Mar 2022 16:35:33 -0800
From:   matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com
To:     hao.wu@...el.com, yilun.xu@...el.com, russell.h.weight@...el.com,
        basheer.ahmed.muddebihal@...el.com, trix@...hat.com,
        mdf@...nel.org, corbet@....net, linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, ashok.raj@...el.com,
        tianfei.zhang@...el.com
Cc:     Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation: fpga: dfl: add PCI Identification documentation

From: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com>

Add documentation on identifying FPGA based PCI cards prompted
by discussion on the linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com>
---
v2: Introduced in v2.
---
 Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
index ef9eec71f6f3..5fb2ca8e76d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
@@ -502,6 +502,26 @@ Developer only needs to provide a sub feature driver with matched feature id.
 FME Partial Reconfiguration Sub Feature driver (see drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c)
 could be a reference.
 
+PCI Device Identification
+================================
+Since FPGA based PCI cards can be reconfigured to a perform a completely
+new function at runtime, properly identifying such cards and binding the
+correct driver can be challenging. In many use cases, deployed FPGA based
+PCI cards are essentially static and the PCI Product ID and Vendor ID pair
+is sufficient to identify the card.  The DFL framework helps with the
+dynamic case of deployed FPGA cards changing at run time by providing
+more detailed information about card discoverable at runtime.
+
+At one level, the DFL on a PCI card describes the function of the card.
+However, the same DFL could be instantiated on different physical cards.
+Conversely, different DFLs could be instantiated on the same physical card.
+Practical management of a cloud containing a heterogeneous set of such cards
+requires a PCI level of card identification. While the PCI Product ID and
+Vendor ID may be sufficient to bind the dfl-pci driver, it is expected
+that FPGA PCI cards would advertise suitable Subsystem ID and Subsystem
+Vendor ID values. PCI Vital Product Data (VPD) can also be used for
+more granular information about the board.
+
 Location of DFLs on a PCI Device
 ================================
 The original method for finding a DFL on a PCI device assumed the start of the
-- 
2.25.1

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