RE: [PATCH v3 08/21] fpga: add Intel FPGA DFL PCIe device

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 05:28:02 EST


From: Wu Hao
> Sent: 27 November 2017 06:42
> From: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The Intel FPGA device appears as a PCIe device on the system. This patch
> implements the basic framework of the driver for Intel PCIe device which
> is located between CPU and Accelerated Function Units (AFUs), and has
> the Device Feature List (DFL) implemented in its MMIO space.

This ought to have a better name than 'Intel FPGA'.
An fpga can be used for all sorts of things, this looks like
a very specific architecture using a common VHDL environment to
allow certain types of user VHDL be accessed over PCIe.

David