From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753521AbbAOLpq (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:45:46 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:32891 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939AbbAOLpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:45:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:44:37 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , atull , Pavel Machek , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, monstr@monstr.eu, michal.simek@xilinx.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, grant.likely@linaro.org, iws@ovro.caltech.edu, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, philip@balister.org, rubini@gnudd.com, s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de, jason@lakedaemon.net, kyle.teske@ni.com, nico@linaro.org, balbi@ti.com, m.chehab@samsung.com, davidb@codeaurora.org, rob@landley.net, davem@davemloft.net, cesarb@cesarb.net, sameo@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, delicious.quinoa@gmail.com, dinguyen@opensource.altera.com, yvanderv@opensource.altera.com Message-ID: <20150115114437.GV3043@sirena.org.uk> References: <20150109205643.GA5761@amd> <20150112210134.687176ed@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20150112214314.GA18610@obsidianresearch.com> <20150113162847.2778b5a5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20150113200032.GA16205@obsidianresearch.com> <20150113222450.GA17475@obsidianresearch.com> <20150114160617.02fb9135@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20150114181258.GB16392@obsidianresearch.com> <20150115113617.537965b3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v7CWsE/Dy737oYst" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150115113617.537965b3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Cookie: To program is to be. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.94.161 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] fpga manager: add sysfs interface document X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --v7CWsE/Dy737oYst Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:36:17AM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > yes - there is a model for this in Linux already. Some of the audio > subsystems have "firmware" files distributed which are actually a > structured file that userspace parses to get a real set of firmware for > the controller and a set of descriptions for things like mixer controls. We didn't actually merge that yet (but we do want to). It's likely that the parsing of the files will end up in the kernel rather than userspace, or that anything userspace is doing is mostly about translating vendor formats into a standard Linux one anyway. --v7CWsE/Dy737oYst Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUt6gkAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQ4yEH/AmhkGaqplZacrO2SqUdLw9v Tgg940NRMGB3vZLtdA9kCGJ8xSuoO299yukTDb9Jrg3IkNSxbOISiooh31pkzqS0 we7p09DC3gKPiV2EvG4gFqz+Qbiy+S19Q6bnO2V2DTuviJvMNeCcW/GqNxGCt5Cs py0NM0YEFUvfXnlgpK93/HL368a0cGey4/pfHUKRF++DcioPlKCCDTBxk1mDBzXX EcTqCrYphmYfi9RkDeAkorvZFuMIoz5XHfLCiQ/DH4X3S7i1W326La0jMoP5LU8s JvizzG9DtFawLqnRDiWbiAJUBF6Rz72J9ggep/SBvFSZexw/9T99SfyhHhrW0BE= =rb+2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v7CWsE/Dy737oYst--