[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 4/7] arm: socfpga: Enable FPGA driver on SPL

[Marek Vasut]

On 06/06/2017 11:36 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 10:35 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 06/06/2017 10:19 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sel, 2017-06-06 at 10:03 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/06/2017 08:35 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch is for enabling FPGA driver support on SPL
>>>> Why would we want that on Gen5 ? I believe this is only needed on
>>>> Gen10.
>>>>
>>> I already moved the fpga_manager driver into drivers/fpga/ on patch
>>> 6,
>>> and fpga_manager drivers are required on SPL. Actually fpga_manager
>>> driver should be part of the drivers/fpga.
>> I think I miss some fundamental piece of information . Why would I
>> need
>> anything from the FPGA framework in SPL on Gen5 ? It is not needed
>> thus
>> far. Is it because you shuffled some of the code around or what ?
>>
> Because we need to know some status and mode type from FPGA even we did
> not program FPGA in SPL.

But we didn't have this option enabled before and everything worked on
gen5, why do we need it now ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut