On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:27:57AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: >> What is the usecase here? > > During boot I need to know, for example, when an FPGA is ready to be > programmed, and when said FPGA has finished its initialization. I also read > the sate of on-board DIP switches to determine the desired boot method. I find > the current sysfs interface quite convenient for these and similar tasks. So given that an FPGA is a piece of hardware, it should have its firmware loaded from the kernel and a kernel driver communicating with it I guess? I feel the smell of a huge bundle of userspace drivers for something that should be handled by the kernel. Yours, Linus Walleij -- 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
