Hi Pavel,

> On Jan 2, 2015, at 07:12 , Pavel Machek <pa...@denx.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> +What:               /sys/class/fpga_manager/<fpga>/firmware
>> +Date:               October 2014
>> +KernelVersion:      3.18
>> +Contact:    Alan Tull <at...@opensource.altera.com>
>> +Description:        Name of the FPGA image file to load using firmware 
>> class.
> 
> This is wrong interface, right? The only use of this string is to pass
> it to udev. We should simply pass "fpga-0" as a firware name, and let
> udev figure it out, no need to to prepare name in separate component,
> then pass it to kernel, which passes it back to udev.
> 

No. No dependencies on udev please. This should hook directly to the firmware
loader interface which does not rely on userspace at all.

>> +What:               /sys/class/fpga_manager/<fpga>/reset
>> +Date:               October 2014
>> +KernelVersion:      3.18
>> +Contact:    Alan Tull <at...@opensource.altera.com>
>> +Description:        Write 1 to reset the FPGA
> 
> Does 0 need to be written there to pull the fpga out of reset? Is this
> a suitable interface?
> 
>                                                               Pavel
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Regards

— Pantelis

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