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Linux kernel FPGA support
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Alan Tull 2017
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The main point of this project has been to separate the out the upper layers
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that know when to reprogram a FPGA from the lower layers that know how to
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reprogram a specific FPGA device. The intention is to make this manufacturer
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agnostic, understanding that of course the FPGA images are very device specific
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themselves.
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The framework in the kernel includes:
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* low level FPGA manager drivers that know how to program a specific device
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* the fpga-mgr framework they are registered with
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* low level FPGA bridge drivers for hard/soft bridges which are intended to
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be disable during FPGA programming
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* the fpga-bridge framework they are registered with
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* the fpga-region framework which associates and controls managers and bridges
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as reconfigurable regions
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* the of-fpga-region support for reprogramming FPGAs when device tree overlays
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are applied.
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I would encourage you the user to add code that creates FPGA regions rather
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that trying to control managers and bridges separately.
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