Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:47:49 -0500 | From | atull <> | Subject | Re: [v2 2/2] fpga: Add support for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> > > Hi Joel, > > > > Thanks for submitting your driver! > > > > I didn't see any huge problems, just minor things below... > > > > Alan > > > > Hi Alan, Thanks for your feedback. I've implemented all your suggestions and > I'll resubmit. > > I had a question about the status of the fpga-manager framework. Is there > active work going on? I was wondering if there were any patches for specifying > a firmware file from device-tree?
Yes! I have submitted patches for doing exactly that. About to submit v21. Here's patch 1 of v20:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9379859/
> and/or if there were any patches for loading > firmware from userspace - something like this: "cat firmware.bin > > /dev/fpga0"?
We discussed doing a char driver interface. That's where all this started. It met with lots of resistance.
> > Only being able to load firmware from kernel C-code is rather a limitation - > though I suppose the framework is quite early in development. > > Thanks > Joel >
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