Re: [PATCH v4 23/24] fpga: dfl: afu: add user afu sub feature support

From: Alan Tull
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 14:18:07 EST


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:10:28PM -0500, Alan Tull wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hao,
>>
>> > From: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > User Accelerated Function Unit sub feature exposes the MMIO region of
>>
>> Is it 'user accelerated'? I think it is the Accelerator interface.
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> This is only used to emphasize this is the interface to accelerator
> exposed to user. But looks like this causes some confusions for user
> actually from the description. I agree with you, that I will remove
> this UAFU from this patchset.
>
>>
>> > the AFU. After valid green bitstream (GBS) is programmed and port is
>>
>> Would it make sense to just use "partial bitstream" or "PR bitstream"
>> and "static bitstream" for this patchset? I don't think that adding
>> this terminology makes things clearer. In any case when someone else
>> uses this patchset, they may not be using this type of branding in
>> their terminology.
>
> Sure, will update the commit message and also sysfs doc below.

Yes and dfl.txt and the rest of the patchset as well, please.

Alan