Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Tull <> | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:00:22 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 08/21] fpga: add Intel FPGA DFL PCIe device |
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 01:46:59PM -0600, Alan Tull wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:28:04AM +0000, David Laight wrote: >> >> From: Wu Hao >> >> > Sent: 27 November 2017 06:42 >> >> > From: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@intel.com> >> >> > >> >> > The Intel FPGA device appears as a PCIe device on the system. This patch >> >> > implements the basic framework of the driver for Intel PCIe device which >> >> > is located between CPU and Accelerated Function Units (AFUs), and has >> >> > the Device Feature List (DFL) implemented in its MMIO space. >> >> >> >> This ought to have a better name than 'Intel FPGA'. >> >> An fpga can be used for all sorts of things, this looks like >> >> a very specific architecture using a common VHDL environment to >> >> allow certain types of user VHDL be accessed over PCIe. >> > >> > Hi David >> > >> > This patch adds a pcie device driver for Intel FPGA devices which implements >> > the DFL, e.g Intel Server Platform with In-package FPGA and Intel FPGA PCIe >> > Acceleration Cards. They are pcie devices, and all have DFL implemented in >> > the MMIO space, so we would like to use one kernel driver to handle them. >> > >> > With this full patchset, it just provides user the interfaces to configure >> > and access the FPGA accelerators on Intel DFL based FPGA devices. For sure, >> > users can develop and build their own logics via tools provided by Intel, >> > program them to accelerators on these Intel FPGA devices, and access them >> > for their workloads. >> >> I don't see anything Intel specific here. This could all be named dfl-* > > The maybe some device specific things, e.g Intel FPGA devices supported by this > driver always have FME DFL at the beginning on the BAR0 for PF device. > > But I think this should be the right direction for better code reuse, it could > save efforts for other vendors who want to use DFL and follow the same way. > > Thanks for the comments. I will rename this driver in the next version.
Thanks!
Regarding file names, it seems like the files added to drivers/fpga could be uniformly named dfl-*.[ch]. Some are fpga-dfl-*.[ch] while other are currently dfl-*.[ch] currently.
Alan
> > Hao
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