[PATCH] fpga zynq: Check the bitstream for validity
Matthias Brugger
mbrugger at suse.com
Fri Oct 28 04:12:06 PDT 2016
On 10/27/2016 12:54 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> There is no sense in sending a bitstream we know will not work, and
> with the variety of options for bitstream generation in Xilinx tools
> it is not terribly clear or very well documented what the correct
> input should be, especially since auto-detection was removed from this
> driver.
>
> All Zynq full configuration bitstreams must start with the sync word in
> the correct byte order.
>
> Zynq is also only able to DMA dword quantities, so bitstreams must be
> a multiple of 4 bytes. This also fixes a DMA-past the end bug.
>
The you can also fix the transfer_length calculation in
zynq_fpga_ops_write, as we don't allow buffers which are not a multiple
of 4.
Regards,
Matthias
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