Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:27:00 -0400 | From | Jerome Glisse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/16] Intel FPGA Device Drivers |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 08:08:00PM +0800, Wu Hao wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is a patch-series adding drivers for Intel FPGA devices. > > The Intel FPGA driver provides interfaces for userspace applications to > configure, enumerate, open, and access FPGA accelerators on platforms > equipped with Intel(R) FPGA solutions and enables system level management > functions such as FPGA partial reconfiguration, power management and > virtualization. > > This patch series only adds the basic functions for FPGA accelerators and > partial reconfiguration. Patches for more functions, e.g power management > and virtualization, will be submitted after this series gets reviewed. > > Patch 1: add a document for Intel FPGA driver overview, including the HW > architecture, driver organization, device enumeration, virtualization and > opens. > > Patch 2: introduce a fpga-dev class. It's used in below Intel FPGA PCIe > device driver, to represent a FPGA device on the system, and all actual > feature devices should be registered as child nodes of this container > fpga-dev device. > > Patch 3-7: implement Intel FPGA PCIe device driver. It walks through the > 'Device Feature List' in the PCI Bar, creates the container fpga-dev as > parent and platform devices as children for the feature devices it found. > > Patch 8-11: implement Intel FPGA Management Engine (FME) driver. It's a > platform driver matching with the FME platform device created by above > PCIe driver. Sysfs and device file ioctls are exposed as user interfaces > to allow partial reconfiguration to Accelerated Function Units (AFUs) from > user space applications.
Do we have an open source toolchain to generate the FPGA configuration (bitstream) ? As it is required for the GPU sub-system that any driver API must comes with open source userspace.
Or are FPGA given a free pass ?
Cheers, Jérôme
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