On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:

> On Tue 2015-01-06 14:13:37, at...@opensource.altera.com 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 one is ugly: it unneccessarily passes firmware name through the
> kernel. Just make interface and code simpler by always passing
> "socfpga-fpga-image" or something like that.
> 
> Thanks,
>                                                                       Pavel

Hi Pavel,

It might be ugly.  It's not unnecessary.  Some uses of FPGAs involve
switching out the FPGA images dynamically under control of the userspace.

Alan
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