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

[Tom Rix]

On 5/19/21 1:49 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> 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?

I think that only applies to xilinx,  its all persistent for dfl.

How about calling it what it is.

partial_update -> partial_reconfiguration

full_update -> board_reimage

Tom

> - Moritz