On Tue 2015-01-13 16:21:33, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:06:08 -0700 > Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:29:00AM -0600, atull wrote: > > > the FPGA image. If someone wants there to be only one FPGA image on > > > the FGPA forever, they will probably not be using this framework; their > > > FPGA will probably be loaded before Linux boots up. > > > > Nonsense, loading the FPGA through Linux is much better > > You need both. There are platforms where the FPGA must be loaded to even > boot the OS (for example Linux running an FPGA soft 486 can't run until > the FPGA has the CPU loaded into it. Well, but then the thing that programs FPGA is not Linux, so this is little off-topic here. [But yes, there are systems where you want to program FPGA from bootloader, because it is easier that way, or maybe because it provides your video card.] 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
