Re: [PATCH 00/16] Intel FPGA Device Drivers

[Alan Tull]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jerome,

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:48:17PM -0700, Luebbers, Enno wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:37:49AM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:46:19AM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > It is like if on GPU we only had close source compiler for the GPU
>> > > > instructions set. So FPGA is definitly following different rules than
>> > > > open source upstream GPU kernel driver abides to.

Sorry, not a GPU guy, can you point me to something that documents
this policy of 'only opensource compilers for GPU'?  I looked under
linux/Documentation and didn't see anything.

The current patchset doesn't have anything to do with FPGA toolchains
but you're using this patchset as a platform to talk about toolchain
issues.

It sounds like you are opposed to any kernel support of loading images
on FPGAs until all vendors have opensource toolchains.

Alan