[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/19] arm: socfpga: Add driver for flash to program FPGA

[Marek Vasut]

On 09/06/2017 07:06 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
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>>>>> The BSP tool is used to describe internal FPGA in SOCFPGA.
>>>>> Other
>>>>> external FPGAs other than SOCFPGA itself, it can be programmed
>>>>> through
>>>>> U-boot.
>>>> The BSP tool is broken if it generates broken DT, do I have to
>>>> repeat
>>>> myself ?
>>>>
>>> BSP tool is only generate the RBF filename for FPGA inside SOCFPGA.
>>> Multiple external FPGA are configured through U-boot.
>> What happens if you have FPGA connector over SPI ?
>>
> I assume you are saying FPGA connected to EPCQ

No, I mean FPGA connected over SPI bus.

>, and this is one of the
> external FPGA configuration, like PCIE. For any external FPGA
> configuration, FPGA itself/external HOST would get the FPGA data from
> storage such as EPCQ and configuring the FPGA without HPS/Bootloader
> intervine. SPL/U-boot would skip the FPGA configuration process when
> they see the mode is set to external FPGA configuration.
> 
> I know you want a DT to describe all FPGAs with FPGA node and their own
> data filename in every node. But, at this moment, all external FPGAs
> chip other than SOCFPGA itself are configured through U-boot(script &
> env variable), or external FPGA configuration method.

I want DT which describes hardware and is not misdesigned crap.
Just because the BSP tool is broken does not mean I can allow upstream
to accept that, no way.

> How about i just create a FPGA node for SOCFPGA, with FPGA data
> filename within the node?

Isn't that what the FPGA manager in mainline Linux does already ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut