PCI hotplug supported on ARM (Kirkwood)? - fakephp?
Dieter Kiermaier
dk-arm-linux at gmx.de
Fri Nov 13 06:21:43 EST 2009
Am Donnerstag 12 November 2009 20:01:32 schrieb Alexander Clouter:
> Dieter Kiermaier <dk-arm-linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > is it possible to boot a FPGA which is connected to an PCI bus on a
> > kirkwood cpu (via a pcie->pci bridge) at runtime (I call it hotplug)?
> >
> > And after booting the FPGA e.g. via slave serial protocol loading the
> > pci driver and access the device? This would be much easier to handle
> > than flashing the fpga using u-boot.
> >
> > Is there any special framework I have to use? How can I tell the
> > kernel to reenumerate the bus and reasign the pci resources?
> >
> > I have googled a lot and also tried to find something at newsgroups or
> > mailinglists but I haven't found some valuable information - at least
> > not for me ;). Is this possible?
> >
> I tried tackling this on my board by creating a new 'bus' and trying to
> work around making the FPGA 'hotplugable' that way. As the bus would
> know about the process of reprogramming the FPGA, it could cleanly
> unload and reload everything.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124441477117607&w=2
>
> Never did get it to work and no one expressed any real interest in it
> for the platform sadly; so I drifted off looking for other geeky things
> to do.
>
> I am still personally keener on the bus model, but Geert suggested I
> lump for a MFD.
Hm, it looks like fakephp is what I was looking for but I see no way to compile
this module on my arm (kirkwood).
Does anybody know a way to compile it?
Many thanks,
Dieter
>
> Whatever you do, if you can keep me in the loop then I can nick your
> ideas/code and maybe get back into tinkering with my ARM board, that's
> if I stop bricking my MIPS boards :-/
>
> Cheers
>
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