On Wed 2013-10-02 12:00:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/02/2013 08:35 AM, Michal Simek wrote: > > > > Based on my discussion at ELC with Greg KH the new driver should > > support firmware interface for loading bitstream. > > > > As I have previously stated, I think this is a mistake simply because > the firmware interface is a bad mapping on requirements for an FPGA, > especially once you account for the vast number of ways an FPGA can > get loaded and you take partial reconfiguration into account. I > happen to be at a face to face meeting with Greg today, so I'll pick > his brain a bit. Umm. Could the discussion be kept on line? Yes, more than one bitstream makes sense for fpga, but more than one firmware makes sense for most other devices, too... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
