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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/2] Add streaming API for firmware and FPGA manager


On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, yi1.li@linux.intel.com wrote:

> From: Yi Li <yi1.li@linux.intel.com>


Hi Yi,

This functionality is extremely helpful. I am working with a
firmware image of about 90 MBs, and even using scatter-gather instead of a
continguous piece of memory is a lot of memory.

Matthew Gerlach

>
> As the FPGA hardware advances, the firmware image size grows (hundres
> of MBs or more). It could be an issue for kernel to allocate a big
> buffer to load the whole firmware file.
> Here is an attempt to read the firmware file into a small buffer and
> program the FPGA in a loop (or so call the streaming mode). It should not
> be a performance hit for FPGA programing since the majority of time
> spend is with the FPGA CvP/PR-IP interface.
>
> pseudo code in fpga manager:
> while (size > 0) {
> ret = stream_firmware(&fw, image_name, dev, offset, streamsize);
> ret = mgr->mops->write(mgr, fw->data, fw->size);
> offset += fw->size;
> size -= fw->size;
> }
>
> Thanks,
> Yi
>
> Yi Li (2):
> firmware class: Add stream_firmware API.
> fpga manager: Add fpga_mgr_firmware_stream API
>
> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/fpga/fpga-mgr.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/firmware.h | 2 +
> include/linux/fpga/fpga-mgr.h | 4 ++
> 4 files changed, 211 insertions(+)
>
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