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documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api

Move Documentation/fpga/fpga-region.txt to
driver-api/fpga/fpga-region.rst.  Including:
 - Add it to driver-api/fpga/index.rst
 - Formatting changes to build cleanly as ReST documentation
 - Some rewrites for better flow as a ReST doc such as moving
   API reference to the end of the doc
 - Rewrite API reference section to refer to kernel-doc
   documentation in fpga-region.c driver code

Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Alan Tull 2018-05-16 18:50:05 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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FPGA Region
===========
Overview
--------
This document is meant to be an brief overview of the FPGA region API usage. A
more conceptual look at regions can be found in the Device Tree binding
document [#f1]_.
For the purposes of this API document, let's just say that a region associates
an FPGA Manager and a bridge (or bridges) with a reprogrammable region of an
FPGA or the whole FPGA. The API provides a way to register a region and to
program a region.
Currently the only layer above fpga-region.c in the kernel is the Device Tree
support (of-fpga-region.c) described in [#f1]_. The DT support layer uses regions
to program the FPGA and then DT to handle enumeration. The common region code
is intended to be used by other schemes that have other ways of accomplishing
enumeration after programming.
An fpga-region can be set up to know the following things:
* which FPGA manager to use to do the programming
* which bridges to disable before programming and enable afterwards.
Additional info needed to program the FPGA image is passed in the struct
fpga_image_info including:
* pointers to the image as either a scatter-gather buffer, a contiguous
buffer, or the name of firmware file
* flags indicating specifics such as whether the image if for partial
reconfiguration.
How to program a FPGA using a region
------------------------------------
First, allocate the info struct::
info = fpga_image_info_alloc(dev);
if (!info)
return -ENOMEM;
Set flags as needed, i.e.::
info->flags |= FPGA_MGR_PARTIAL_RECONFIG;
Point to your FPGA image, such as::
info->sgt = &sgt;
Add info to region and do the programming::
region->info = info;
ret = fpga_region_program_fpga(region);
:c:func:`fpga_region_program_fpga()` operates on info passed in the
fpga_image_info (region->info). This function will attempt to:
* lock the region's mutex
* lock the region's FPGA manager
* build a list of FPGA bridges if a method has been specified to do so
* disable the bridges
* program the FPGA
* re-enable the bridges
* release the locks
Then you will want to enumerate whatever hardware has appeared in the FPGA.
How to add a new FPGA region
----------------------------
An example of usage can be seen in the probe function of [#f2]_.
.. [#f1] ../devicetree/bindings/fpga/fpga-region.txt
.. [#f2] ../../drivers/fpga/of-fpga-region.c
API to program a FGPA
---------------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c
:functions: fpga_region_program_fpga
API to add a new FPGA region
----------------------------
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fpga/fpga-region.h
:functions: fpga_region
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c
:functions: fpga_region_create
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c
:functions: fpga_region_free
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c
:functions: fpga_region_register
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c
:functions: fpga_region_unregister

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intro
fpga-mgr
fpga-bridge
fpga-region

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FPGA Regions
Alan Tull 2017
CONTENTS
- Introduction
- The FPGA region API
- Usage example
Introduction
============
This document is meant to be an brief overview of the FPGA region API usage. A
more conceptual look at regions can be found in [1].
For the purposes of this API document, let's just say that a region associates
an FPGA Manager and a bridge (or bridges) with a reprogrammable region of an
FPGA or the whole FPGA. The API provides a way to register a region and to
program a region.
Currently the only layer above fpga-region.c in the kernel is the Device Tree
support (of-fpga-region.c) described in [1]. The DT support layer uses regions
to program the FPGA and then DT to handle enumeration. The common region code
is intended to be used by other schemes that have other ways of accomplishing
enumeration after programming.
An fpga-region can be set up to know the following things:
* which FPGA manager to use to do the programming
* which bridges to disable before programming and enable afterwards.
Additional info needed to program the FPGA image is passed in the struct
fpga_image_info [2] including:
* pointers to the image as either a scatter-gather buffer, a contiguous
buffer, or the name of firmware file
* flags indicating specifics such as whether the image if for partial
reconfiguration.
===================
The FPGA region API
===================
To register or unregister a region:
-----------------------------------
int fpga_region_register(struct fpga_region *region);
int fpga_region_unregister(struct fpga_region *region);
An example of usage can be seen in the probe function of [3]
To program an FPGA:
-------------------
int fpga_region_program_fpga(struct fpga_region *region);
This function operates on info passed in the fpga_image_info
(region->info).
This function will attempt to:
* lock the region's mutex
* lock the region's FPGA manager
* build a list of FPGA bridges if a method has been specified to do so
* disable the bridges
* program the FPGA
* re-enable the bridges
* release the locks
=============
Usage example
=============
First, allocate the info struct:
info = fpga_image_info_alloc(dev);
if (!info)
return -ENOMEM;
Set flags as needed, i.e.
info->flags |= FPGA_MGR_PARTIAL_RECONFIG;
Point to your FPGA image, such as:
info->sgt = &sgt;
Add info to region and do the programming:
region->info = info;
ret = fpga_region_program_fpga(region);
Then enumerate whatever hardware has appeared in the FPGA.
--
[1] ../devicetree/bindings/fpga/fpga-region.txt
[2] ./fpga-mgr.txt
[3] ../../drivers/fpga/of-fpga-region.c