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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. |