Hi Mark, > On Oct 27, 2014, at 19:17 , Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:45:03PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > Please fix your mail client to word wrap at less than 80 columns. > >> Well, it’s not my speciality, but my understanding is that FPGAs take >> (considerable) >> time to be programmed. If someone has already configured the ‘bus’ it is >> considered >> a win to not reload the bitstream. I.e. if you boot with the bootloader >> having loaded >> the bitstream already, you don’t want to do it again. > > That's not what your property is saying, though - if it were just about > handover between the bootloader and the kernel that'd be one thing but > it's also got this additional possibility to instruct the kernel that > the device must be either disabled or explicitly programmed. Having a > property that just says "this FPGA is programmed" covers the handover > case but this property does more than that.
It’s not my property. This is not my driver. The property is badly-named as it is IMHO. Why don’t we let Alan chime in? Regards — Pantelis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
