Re: [PATCH 1/2] fpga: generalize updating to partial and full

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Tom,

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:42:56PM -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There is a need to update the whole card.
> The user area, the shell and even the card firmware.
> This needs to be handled differently than the
> existing partial updating in the fpga manager.
> 
> Move the write_* ops out of fpga_manager_ops and
> into a new fpga_manager_update_ops struct.  Add
> two update_ops back to fpga_manager_ops,
> partial_update for the exiting functionality and
> full_update for the new functionity.

Partial and Full are somewhat loaded terms with FPGAs -- think partial
reconfiguration vs full reconfiguration.

How about 'persistent' and 'volatile' or something along those lines
instead?

- Moritz



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