[U-Boot] [PATCH] fpga: allow programming fpga from FIT image for all FPGA drivers

[Simon Glass]

Hi Simon,

On 20 November 2017 at 22:38, Goldschmidt Simon
<sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Simon Glass wrote:
>> On 10 November 2017 at 07:17, Goldschmidt Simon <sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-
>> fuchs.com> wrote:
>> > This drops the limit that fpga is only loaded from FIT images for Xilinx.
>> > This is done by moving the 'partial' check from 'common/image.c' to
>> > 'drivers/fpga/xilinx.c' (the only driver supporting partial images
>> > yet) and supplies a weak default implementation in 'drivers/fpga/fpga.c'.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-fuchs.com>
>> > ---
>> >  common/bootm.c        |  2 +-
>> >  common/image.c        |  6 ++----
>> >  drivers/fpga/fpga.c   |  9 +++++++++
>> >  drivers/fpga/xilinx.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>> >  include/fpga.h        |  1 +
>> >  5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>>
>> I think the FPGA subsystem should move to driver model.
>
> I can understand the need for that. However, I don't have the expertise
> to do so, I guess. Also, I would have thought this requirement would be
> raised to someone actually adding/changing fpga code (like the recent
> Intel activities on this list).
>
> In contrast to this, I see my patch more like cleaning the code, moving
> Xilinx dependent code from 'common/image.c' to 'drivers/fpga/xilinx.c'.
> This cleanup in the common directory is rather independent of migrating
> the fpga subsystem to driver model.

I see that, although it is adding to the fpga header so presumably
making it harder for someone to move this over.

Does anyone on cc know the plan fr conversion of FPGA to driver model?
It does not look too tricky from a quick look at the header file.

Regards,
Simon