Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Enable upper layers using FPGA region w/o device tree

From: Alan Tull
Date: Thu Apr 20 2017 - 10:17:36 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The current FPGA layer has two problems which this
> patchset addresses:
>
> * We now have 3 functions for programming a FPGA, depending
> on whether the image is in a sg list, a buffer, or firmware.
> So callers have to decide where the image will be or have
> to write extra code to maintain flexibilty.
>
> * users who aren't using device tree are left to write their
> own code that is essentially a rewrite of FPGA region.
>
> The major things this patchset accomplishes is:

I've pushed a branch to linux-fpga - review-next-20170420-atull-v2