From: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>, "mdf@kernel.org" <mdf@kernel.org>,
"linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"luwei.kang@intel.com" <luwei.kang@intel.com>,
"yi.z.zhang@intel.com" <yi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
Tim Whisonant <tim.whisonant@intel.com>,
Enno Luebbers <enno.luebbers@intel.com>,
Shiva Rao <shiva.rao@intel.com>,
Christopher Rauer <christopher.rauer@intel.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/21] fpga: add Intel FPGA DFL PCIe device
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:39:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANk1AXTwERaK52p+gbLGx-JxK0g9hq2oYwbJNzbJNbHp6X03Jw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2b9d86fda904f709158c018a099e19d@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:28 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Tull
>> Sent: 06 December 2017 15:30
>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:44 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
>> > From: Wu Hao
>> >> Sent: 06 December 2017 05:30
>> > ...
>> >> > Regarding file names, it seems like the files added to drivers/fpga
>> >> > could be uniformly named dfl-*.[ch]. Some are fpga-dfl-*.[ch] while
>> >> > other are currently dfl-*.[ch] currently.
>> >
>> > They don't even want to do into a drivers/fgpa directory.
>> > Maybe drivers/dfl or drivers/dfl/intel
>>
>> It's plugged into the fpga framework in drivers/fpga. This patchset
>> also handles reprogramming the fpga, not just the dfl style
>> enumeration. But your points about this being not just for FPGA are
>> interesting to me. Do you have a use for this that isn't
>> FPGA-centric?
>
> That all just seems wrong to me.
> If you've managed to invent some common code for reprogramming fpga
> I'd have though it would be library functions.
Why don't you familiarize yourself with the fpga framework before
commenting on it? ;)
>
> The driver ought to sit somewhere related to its functionality.
>
> Our fpga loads from a serial EEPROM, the image is about 6.5MB.
> We can rewrite it from userspace by mmap()ing part of one of the BARs
> to access some very locally written (by me) VHDL that does most of
> the required bit-banging for 32it word accesses.
The fpga framework is intended to handle cases where the it is desired
to reprogram the fpga a lot without having to reboot. It doesn't
sound like that is your use case.
> You really wouldn't want to load 6.5MB into kernel space!
No, and there have been proposals, shot down so far regarding
streaming firmware images a page at a time.
>
> We also had to solve the problem of 9 separate driver modules that
> want to access different parts of the BARs.
> I think we have 46 separate slaves in the fpgas BARs (most are in 1 BAR).
> Some of these are common between different boards (or completely different
> memory maps for the same board.
>
> I can imagine some generic method of having a 'board' driver for a
> specific PCI-id that knows the BAR offsets of various functions so that
> other sub-drivers could be loaded to access those functions.
> But that is some kind of pseudo-bus not fpga specific in any way.
>
> David
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 6:42 [PATCH v3 00/21] Intel FPGA Device Drivers Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 01/21] docs: fpga: add a document for Intel FPGA driver overview Wu Hao
2017-12-04 19:55 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-05 3:57 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-06 10:04 ` David Laight
2017-12-20 22:31 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-21 6:02 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 02/21] fpga: mgr: add region_id to fpga_image_info Wu Hao
2017-11-29 6:11 ` Moritz Fischer
2017-12-04 20:26 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-05 3:36 ` Wu Hao
2018-01-31 15:35 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-01 5:05 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 03/21] fpga: mgr: add status for fpga-manager Wu Hao
2017-12-04 20:55 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-05 4:08 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-12 18:18 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-13 4:48 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 04/21] fpga: add device feature list support Wu Hao
2017-11-29 6:07 ` Moritz Fischer
2017-11-30 5:59 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-20 22:29 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-21 0:58 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-21 7:22 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-22 8:45 ` Wu Hao
2018-01-31 23:22 ` Alan Tull
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 05/21] fpga: dfl: add chardev support for feature devices Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 06/21] fpga: dfl: adds fpga_cdev_find_port Wu Hao
2018-02-05 22:08 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-06 2:37 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 07/21] fpga: dfl: add feature device infrastructure Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 08/21] fpga: add Intel FPGA DFL PCIe device Wu Hao
2017-11-27 10:28 ` David Laight
2017-11-28 3:15 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-04 19:46 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-05 3:33 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-05 17:00 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-06 5:30 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-06 9:44 ` David Laight
2017-12-06 15:29 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-06 16:28 ` David Laight
2017-12-06 22:39 ` Alan Tull [this message]
2018-02-01 21:59 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-13 9:36 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-06 9:34 ` David Laight
2017-12-07 3:47 ` Wu Hao
2017-12-06 9:31 ` David Laight
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 09/21] fpga: intel-dfl-pci: add enumeration for feature devices Wu Hao
2017-12-07 21:41 ` Alan Tull
2017-12-08 9:25 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 10/21] fpga: dfl: add FPGA Management Engine driver basic framework Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 11/21] fpga: dfl: fme: add header sub feature support Wu Hao
2018-02-12 16:51 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-13 3:44 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 12/21] fpga: dfl: fme: add FPGA_GET_API_VERSION/CHECK_EXTENSION ioctls support Wu Hao
2018-01-31 15:31 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-01 5:11 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-01 15:11 ` Moritz Fischer
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 13/21] fpga: dfl: fme: add partial reconfiguration sub feature support Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] fpga: dfl: add fpga manager platform driver for FME Wu Hao
2018-02-01 22:00 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-02 9:42 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-03 0:26 ` Luebbers, Enno
2018-02-03 10:41 ` Moritz Fischer
2018-02-04 10:05 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-05 17:21 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-06 2:17 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-06 4:25 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-06 5:23 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-06 6:44 ` Moritz Fischer
2018-02-04 9:37 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-05 18:36 ` Luebbers, Enno
2018-02-06 1:47 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-06 4:25 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-06 6:47 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-06 18:53 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-07 4:52 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-07 22:37 ` Alan Tull
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 15/21] fpga: dfl: add fpga bridge " Wu Hao
2018-01-31 15:16 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-01 5:15 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-01 15:11 ` Moritz Fischer
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 16/21] fpga: dfl: add fpga region " Wu Hao
2018-01-31 20:46 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-01 5:23 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-01 15:13 ` Moritz Fischer
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 17/21] fpga: dfl: add FPGA Accelerated Function Unit driver basic framework Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 18/21] fpga: dfl: afu: add header sub feature support Wu Hao
2018-02-12 17:43 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-13 3:33 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 19/21] fpga: dfl: afu: add FPGA_GET_API_VERSION/CHECK_EXTENSION ioctls support Wu Hao
2018-01-31 14:52 ` Alan Tull
2018-02-01 5:16 ` Wu Hao
2018-02-01 15:13 ` Moritz Fischer
2018-02-02 9:08 ` Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 20/21] fpga: dfl: afu: add user afu sub feature support Wu Hao
2017-11-27 6:42 ` [PATCH v3 21/21] fpga: dfl: afu: add FPGA_PORT_DMA_MAP/UNMAP ioctls support Wu Hao
2017-11-27 21:26 ` [PATCH v3 00/21] Intel FPGA Device Drivers Alan Tull
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