On 10/04/2013 04:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Ideally I thought this would be just like "firmware", you dump the file > to the FPGA, it validates it and away you go with a new image running in > the chip. > > But, it sounds like this is much more complicated, so much so that > configfs might be the correct interface for it, as you can do lots of > things there, and it is very flexible (some say too flexible...) > > A char device, with a zillion different custom ioctls is also a way to > do it, but one that I really want to avoid as that gets messy really > quickly. > I'm not sure that a zillion custom ioctls are necessary, but I think we really need to get a better understanding of the various usage cases (and there are going to be ones where an "FPGA driver" simply makes no sense at all.) -hpa -- 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
