Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] FPGAs and how to program them from kernel

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Thu 2015-07-23 15:00:57, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu 2015-07-23 13:26:32, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > FPGAs are common in embedded systems, where they can provide missing
> >> > hardware interfaces, directly implement functionality, or provide
> >> > custom hardware modules. These days they become available for servers,
> >> > too, where they can act as high-performance co-processors (which are
> >> > tricky to program).
> >> >
> >> > People that might be interested:
> >>
> >> Alan Tull <atull@altera.com>
> >> Is sending patchsets for this, and would be the primary person to
> >> invite for this topic:
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143714949226387&w=2
> >
> > Actually, I had him in my original email, but without full name.
> >                                                                         Pavel
> 
> Do you mean this:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Alan Cox
> 
> ;)

Yes, happens easily, but did not happen this time:

> <atull@opensource.altera.com>
> Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
> Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Alan Cox

:-).

> (Happens easily, Linus Torvalds asked me to change my name
> to avoid confusion...)

Hmm, at one point, I had both real Linus Torvalds and fake Linus
Torvalds on the cc list. And fake one tried helping me debugging
graphics problems. It was weird.

								Pavel

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