Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-02-22 Thread delicious quinoa
Our use case is partial reconfiguration of the FPGA. This will be driven from userspace, so the bitstream to program the FPGA will come from userspace, then the overlay for the DT, also from userspace. So we want to take a compiled partial device tree and simply 'cat' it to a point under /proc,

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-02-21 Thread delicious quinoa
I like where this is heading. I'm interested in a use case where IP can be loaded into a FPGA, then add a blob to the device tree and load some drivers. I see your github tree. If I wanted to cherry-pick your code and play around with it, which branch should I use? not-capebus-21? Thanks,

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-02-21 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Alan, On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:25 PM, delicious quinoa wrote: I like where this is heading. I'm interested in a use case where IP can be loaded into a FPGA, then add a blob to the device tree and load some drivers. I see your github tree. If I wanted to cherry-pick your code and play

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-05 Thread Richard Cochran
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:16:51AM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: The problem being addressed is discussed in this thread: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1389017 Thanks for the link. Since the motivation is already documented in that post, why not add it into

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-05 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Richard, It should, but there are a few differences in the syntax plus the fact that I didn't write it. It should go in by a separate patch by the original author. Regards -- Pantelis Από το iPad μου 5 Ιαν 2013, 11:35 π.μ., ο/η Richard Cochran richardcoch...@gmail.com έγραψε: On Sat,

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 01/05/2013 03:35:58 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:16:51AM -0600, Joel A Fernandes wrote: The problem being addressed is discussed in this thread: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1389017 Thanks for the link. Since the motivation is already documented

[PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-04 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree. This patchset is against mainline as of Friday Jan 4 2013. (4956964 Merge tag 'driver-core-3.8-rc2' of \

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Cochran
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree. It would be nice to know the motivation for this code. What is the use case? What problem or issue is being

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays

2013-01-04 Thread Joel A Fernandes
Hi Richard, On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Richard Cochran richardcoch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree. It would be