Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > As far as I can tell, all that does is get the firmware file into a > kernel buffer. It does not appear to program the image into the device > (how could it?). I think bitfiles need a little massaging to be > programmed into the FPGA (you have to extract various sections and send > those, but not the headers, etc.). The actual device programming code > would need to be in the kernel, and it would need to have a bitfile > parser in it. At least Xilinx devices handle some of this in the chip. They ignore anything before a 0xFF byte. Not sure if that needs to be byte aligned, I am guessing it is just 8 consecutive 1 bits. That allows the Xilinx standard bit code, with the compiling software version, time, date and the chip part number to stay in the file for easy ID of various files.
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