On Fri 2015-01-09 13:14:24, atull wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Tue 2015-01-06 14:13:37, atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > + > > > +What: /sys/class/fpga_manager/<fpga>/firmware > > > +Date: October 2014 > > > +KernelVersion: 3.18 > > > +Contact: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > +Description: Name of the FPGA image file to load using firmware > > > class. > > > > This one is ugly: it unneccessarily passes firmware name through the > > kernel. Just make interface and code simpler by always passing > > "socfpga-fpga-image" or something like that. > > > > Thanks, > > Pavel > > Hi Pavel, > > It might be ugly. It's not unnecessary. Some uses of FPGAs involve > switching out the FPGA images dynamically under control of the userspace. Then configure udev to load right firmware for you, or ln -s image-i-want-now socfpga-fpga-image to select the one to read...? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
