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author | Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-03-04 12:26:38 +0100 |
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committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2016-03-09 13:39:56 +0100 |
commit | 594ff7d067ca42676e27e2a7b5dcc0ff039d08ca (patch) | |
tree | 45824c4fb92c9450b86bfbb9ff19a0dd17cd2c93 /Documentation/powerpc | |
parent | cxl: sysfs support for guests (diff) | |
download | linux-594ff7d067ca42676e27e2a7b5dcc0ff039d08ca.tar.xz linux-594ff7d067ca42676e27e2a7b5dcc0ff039d08ca.zip |
cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest
The new flash.c file contains the logic to flash a new image on the
adapter, through a hcall. It is an iterative process, with chunks of
data of 1M at a time. There are also 2 phases: write and verify. The
flash operation itself is driven from a user-land tool.
Once flashing is successful, an rtas call is made to update the device
tree with the new properties values for the adapter and the AFU(s)
Add a new char device for the adapter, so that the flash tool can
access the card, even if there is no valid AFU on it.
Co-authored-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt | 55 |
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt index 205c1b81625c..d5506ba0fef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ Work Element Descriptor (WED) User API ======== +1. AFU character devices + For AFUs operating in AFU directed mode, two character device files will be created. /dev/cxl/afu0.0m will correspond to a master context and /dev/cxl/afu0.0s will correspond to a slave @@ -362,6 +364,59 @@ read reserved fields: For future extensions and padding + +2. Card character device (powerVM guest only) + + In a powerVM guest, an extra character device is created for the + card. The device is only used to write (flash) a new image on the + FPGA accelerator. Once the image is written and verified, the + device tree is updated and the card is reset to reload the updated + image. + +open +---- + + Opens the device and allocates a file descriptor to be used with + the rest of the API. The device can only be opened once. + +ioctl +----- + +CXL_IOCTL_DOWNLOAD_IMAGE: +CXL_IOCTL_VALIDATE_IMAGE: + Starts and controls flashing a new FPGA image. Partial + reconfiguration is not supported (yet), so the image must contain + a copy of the PSL and AFU(s). Since an image can be quite large, + the caller may have to iterate, splitting the image in smaller + chunks. + + Takes a pointer to a struct cxl_adapter_image: + struct cxl_adapter_image { + __u64 flags; + __u64 data; + __u64 len_data; + __u64 len_image; + __u64 reserved1; + __u64 reserved2; + __u64 reserved3; + __u64 reserved4; + }; + + flags: + These flags indicate which optional fields are present in + this struct. Currently all fields are mandatory. + + data: + Pointer to a buffer with part of the image to write to the + card. + + len_data: + Size of the buffer pointed to by data. + + len_image: + Full size of the image. + + Sysfs Class =========== |