Re: [RFC 0/2] Add streaming API for firmware and FPGA manager

2017-03-10 Thread matthew . gerlach
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, yi1...@linux.intel.com wrote: From: Yi Li Hi Yi, This functionality is extremely helpful. I am working with a firmware image of about 90 MBs, and even using scatter-gather instead of a continguous piece of memory is a lot of memory. Matthew Gerlach As the FPGA ha

[RFC 0/2] Add streaming API for firmware and FPGA manager

2017-03-09 Thread yi1 . li
From: Yi Li As the FPGA hardware advances, the firmware image size grows (hundres of MBs or more). It could be an issue for kernel to allocate a big buffer to load the whole firmware file. Here is an attempt to read the firmware file into a small buffer and program the FPGA in a loop (or so call