From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
To: trix@redhat.com
Cc: mdf@kernel.org, hao.wu@intel.com, michal.simek@xilinx.com,
linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fpga: generalize updating to partial and full
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 13:49:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKV55XK1Py5YSXZp@epycbox.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210519204256.1975957-1-trix@redhat.com>
Tom,
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:42:56PM -0700, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
>
> There is a need to update the whole card.
> The user area, the shell and even the card firmware.
> This needs to be handled differently than the
> existing partial updating in the fpga manager.
>
> Move the write_* ops out of fpga_manager_ops and
> into a new fpga_manager_update_ops struct. Add
> two update_ops back to fpga_manager_ops,
> partial_update for the exiting functionality and
> full_update for the new functionity.
Partial and Full are somewhat loaded terms with FPGAs -- think partial
reconfiguration vs full reconfiguration.
How about 'persistent' and 'volatile' or something along those lines
instead?
- Moritz
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 20:42 [PATCH 1/2] fpga: generalize updating to partial and full trix
2021-05-19 20:49 ` Moritz Fischer [this message]
2021-05-20 14:36 ` Tom Rix
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