Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/1] FPGA subsystem core

[Michal Simek]

On 10/07/2013 05:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Special soft IP presenting a PCI device to the host.

ok. It means that you should need just different backend for this device
which is able to communicate over PCI.

I still can't see why this case should be problematic for this fpga
manager.
As Jason pointed if this is just about JTAG emulation and your
data is in different format then you have to create your backend
which will support this configuration.
I will want to look at gpio jtag emulation to be able to program
different board. We have this support for u-boot and doing in Linux
should be also possible.

I think the question is if we can live with 2/3 user interfaces.
I tend to keep firmware one because it is covering a lot of common
use cases and it can be easily to use.
And then I don't have any preference if sysfs or char device
is better.

Thanks,
Michal

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