On 02/17/2015 08:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Tue 2015-02-17 11:07:53, Rob Landley wrote: >> >> >> On 02/15/2015 04:40 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> On Wed 2015-01-21 13:27:00, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 06:33:12PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>>> My point is that the current firmware layer is overly cautious and >>>> FPGAs are very big. My current project on small Xilinx device has a >>>> 10MB programming file. The biggest Xilinx device today has a max >>>> bitfile size around 122MB. >>>> >>>> So keeping that much memory pinned in the kernel when I can prove it >>>> is uncessary for my system (either because there is no suspend/resume >>>> possibility, or because I know the CPU can always access the >>>> filesytem) is very undesirable. >>> >>> Well, your current device aalso has 1GB RAM, no? >> >> Unnecessarily pinning 10% of your ram is a good solution? > > Never said that. But I'd rather have _some_ API proposed, then try to > design in everthing including kitchen sink and do nothing. +1 on this. Thanks, Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
