Re: [PATCH v9 5/7] staging: fpga manager core

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On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Moritz Fischer wrote:

Hi Miritz,

> Hi Alan,
> 
> a couple of small things I found while reworking the Zynq version to
> match the v9 patchset:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:51 AM,  <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
...
> > +       ret = mgr->mops->write_complete(mgr);
> 
> Could we pass in flags here? This way the driver wouldn't have to keep
> track of the flags. For my case it would simplify the partial reconfig
> case.

Yes, that change will be very simple and makes sense to me.

> > +/*
> > + * FPGA Manager flags
> > + * FPGA_MGR_PARTIAL_RECONFIG: do partial reconfiguration if supported
> > + */
> > +#define FPGA_MGR_PARTIAL_RECONFIG (1)
> Could this be BIT(0) instead?

Yes, ha.  That's what it should have been.

> > +
> > +/**
> > + * struct fpga_manager_ops - ops for low level fpga manager drivers
> > + * @state: returns an enum value of the FPGA's state
> > + * @write_init: prepare the FPGA to receive confuration data
> > + * @write: write count bytes of configuration data to the FPGA
> > + * @write_complete: set FPGA to operating state after writing is done
> > + * @fpga_remove: optional: Set FPGA into a specific state during driver remove
> > + *
> > + * fpga_manager_ops are the low level functions implemented by a specific
> > + * fpga manager driver.  The optional ones are tested for NULL before being
> > + * called, so leaving them out is fine.
> > + */
> > +struct fpga_manager_ops {
> > +       enum fpga_mgr_states (*state)(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
> > +       int (*write_init)(struct fpga_manager *mgr, u32 flags,
> > +                         const char *buf, size_t count);
> > +       int (*write)(struct fpga_manager *mgr, const char *buf, size_t count);
> > +       int (*write_complete)(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
> See comment above, having the flags here would be very convenient for
> my usecase.

Yes

> > +       void (*fpga_remove)(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
> > +};
> > +
...
> 
> Overall looks pretty good. I still need to look at the bridge part,
> currently I have the resets and level shifters in the zynq-fpga
> driver,
> but maybe breaking them out makes sense.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Moritz
> 

Thanks for the review.  I'll probably send out a v10 next week including your
recommendations.

Alan

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