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diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst index 0404fe6ffc74..c41ac76ffaae 100644 --- a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst +++ b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst @@ -501,6 +501,34 @@ Developer only needs to provide a sub feature driver with matched feature id. FME Partial Reconfiguration Sub Feature driver (see drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c) could be a reference. +Location of DFLs on a PCI Device +================================ +The original method for finding a DFL on a PCI device assumed the start of the +first DFL to offset 0 of bar 0. If the first node of the DFL is an FME, +then further DFLs in the port(s) are specified in FME header registers. +Alternatively, a PCIe vendor specific capability structure can be used to +specify the location of all the DFLs on the device, providing flexibility +for the type of starting node in the DFL. Intel has reserved the +VSEC ID of 0x43 for this purpose. The vendor specific +data begins with a 4 byte vendor specific register for the number of DFLs followed 4 byte +Offset/BIR vendor specific registers for each DFL. Bits 2:0 of Offset/BIR register +indicates the BAR, and bits 31:3 form the 8 byte aligned offset where bits 2:0 are +zero. +:: + + +----------------------------+ + |31 Number of DFLS 0| + +----------------------------+ + |31 Offset 3|2 BIR 0| + +----------------------------+ + . . . + +----------------------------+ + |31 Offset 3|2 BIR 0| + +----------------------------+ + +Being able to specify more than one DFL per BAR has been considered, but it +was determined the use case did not provide value. Specifying a single DFL +per BAR simplifies the implementation and allows for extra error checking. Open discussion =============== |