[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] FPGAs and how to program them from kernel

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 24 20:59:01 UTC 2015


On 07/23/2015 03:57 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> (Please cc me on replies)
> 
> FPGAs are common in embedded systems, where they can provide missing
> hardware interfaces, directly implement functionality, or provide
> custom hardware modules. These days they become available for servers,
> too, where they can act as high-performance co-processors (which are
> tricky to program).
> 
> There are very different requirements for FPGA that implements your
> SATA controller (so you need it for boot), and one where multiple
> userland applications directly access FPGA using it for different
> computations, needing FPGA netlist to be changed based on userspace
> needs. Yet, it would be nice to come up with single interface that can
> handle all the different applications, and is suitable for mainline
> kernel.
> 
> People that might be interested:
> 
> Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at opensource.altera.com>
> <atull at opensource.altera.com>
> Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar at pengutronix.de>
> Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Alan Cox
> 

Definitely add me to that list.

	-hpa




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