Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] FPGA Manager Framework and Simple FPGA Bus

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, atull wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:51:10AM -0500, atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This patchset adds two chunks plus documentation:
> > >  * fpga manager core: exports ABI functions that write an image to a FPGA
> > >  * DT Overlay support: simple-fpga-bus to handle FPGA from a DT overlay
> > 
> > I didn't read super closely, but overall it makes sense to me..
> > 
> > Providing an in-kernel API will let someone else figure out how to
> > expose that to user space. The DT based scheme seems pretty nice.
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Can you use this without DT overlay? Ie if I provide the FGPA
> > description as part of my boot time DT will it just work?
> 
> The simple fpga bus would need to defer probing until after the fpga 
> manager driver and bridge drivers are probed (that's easy).  Since it is 
> using firmware, it will also have to defer until the filesystem is 
> available so it can get the fpga image to load.  I'll work on it.
> 
> Alan

I looked some more; I don't see a simple way of deferring probing until 
after the filesystem is loaded (so that the image file would be 
available), late_initcall is still not late enough.

Alan


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