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diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt b/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0f1236e7e675 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fpga/overview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +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. |