Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:09:44 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] New driver: Xillybus generic interface for FPGA (programmable logic) |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Xillybus is a general-purpose framework for communication between programmable > logic (FPGA) and a host. It provides a simple connection between hardware FIFOs > in the FPGA and their respective device files on the host. > > The user interface is device files that are used like pipe files, only there's > FPGA logic on the other side rather than another process. > > The underlying transport between the host and FPGA is either PCIe or AXI > (AMBA bus by ARM). > > The Xillybus logic (IP core) is configurable in the number of pipes it presents > and their nature. The driver autodetects these pipes, making it essentially > forward-compatible to future configurations. The benefit of having this driver > enabled in the kernel is that hardware vendors may release a new card, knowing > that it will work out of the box on any future Linux machine, with the specific > configuration defined for the FPGA part. > > Documentation: http://xillybus.com/doc/ > > This driver has been available for download for over a year, and has been > actively used on a wide variety of kernels versions and configurations.
You didn't answer my previous comments about the kernel/user interface here, why not?
And you ignored my other review comments, which is a sure way for me to want to reject this and not look at any future submissions from you for at least a month...
greg k-h
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