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author | Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org> | 2018-05-16 18:50:02 -0500 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-25 18:23:56 +0200 |
commit | 66c472cdb62d7b00de55722a772f7dfecf88abd1 (patch) | |
tree | b4dd1b7498ff16e1eb48dedfb66a7ad1bbb8c7ea /Documentation/fpga | |
parent | 917a4304fe48c12d346f038c7d64da3f51bce53a (diff) | |
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Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
Start of moving Documentation/fpga/*.txt to driver-api, including:
- Add new directory driver-api/fpga
- Add new file driver-api/fpga/index.rst
- Add driver-api/fpga to driver-api/index.rst
- Move Documentation/fpga/overview.txt to driver-api/fpga/intro.rst
- Formatting and rewrites so that intro.rst will build cleanly
and form a good introduction to the rest of the docs to be added.
Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/fpga')
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diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt b/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0f1236e7e675..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Linux kernel FPGA support - -Alan Tull 2017 - -The main point of this project has been to separate the out the upper layers -that know when to reprogram a FPGA from the lower layers that know how to -reprogram a specific FPGA device. The intention is to make this manufacturer -agnostic, understanding that of course the FPGA images are very device specific -themselves. - -The framework in the kernel includes: -* low level FPGA manager drivers that know how to program a specific device -* the fpga-mgr framework they are registered with -* low level FPGA bridge drivers for hard/soft bridges which are intended to - be disable during FPGA programming -* the fpga-bridge framework they are registered with -* the fpga-region framework which associates and controls managers and bridges - as reconfigurable regions -* the of-fpga-region support for reprogramming FPGAs when device tree overlays - are applied. - -I would encourage you the user to add code that creates FPGA regions rather -that trying to control managers and bridges separately. |