Re: [PATCH v2] fpga: microsemi-spi: add Microsemi FPGA manager

From: Ivan Bornyakov
Date: Tue Feb 15 2022 - 13:23:17 EST


Hello Conor, Moritz

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 09:52:30AM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Hi Conor, Ivan,
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 05:37:04PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > Hey Ivan,
> > Firstly thanks for the patch(es), stumbled across them today.
> > As you may know Microsemi has been acquired by Microchip, so
> > s/microsemi/microchip/ please. This would make the correct vendor
> > prefix for compatible strings "microchip". While you've said this is
> > for the PolarFire FPGA, there is prescendent for using "mpfs" for the
> > PolarFire SoC FPGA in the kernel - so if you could change the uses of
> > "polarfire" to "mpf" that'd be great.
>
> I personally don't have a strong opinion on hte microchip vs microsemi
> here. We have precedent with intel/altera.
>

Me neither, so I'll do what Conor asked.

> >
> > The current item on my own todo list is the opposite side of this,
> > reprogramming the FPGA via the system controller acting as a SPI
> > master for PolarFire SoC.
> > I will get back to you when I have a better idea of what (if any) code
> > can be made generic between both modes. In the meantime, I will get
> > together a setup to test SPI slave reprogramming of the PolarFire (SoC)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Conor <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for chiming in. Always nice to have vendors help out reviewing.
>

Yeah, that's great, thanks in advance Conor.

> > > Add support to the FPGA manager for programming Microsemi Polarfire
> > > FPGAs over slave SPI interface.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Bornyakov <i.bornyakov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Changelog:
> > > v1 -> v2: fix printk formating
> > >
> > > drivers/fpga/Kconfig | 9 +
> > > drivers/fpga/Makefile | 1 +
> > > drivers/fpga/microsemi-spi.c | 366 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 3 files changed, 376 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/microsemi-spi.c
> > >
> > --<snip>--
>
> I'll take a closer look once the bot's complaints are addressed.
>
> Thanks,
> Moritz

Thanks in advance Moritz.