From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ACDB40C for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com (mail-ob0-f174.google.com [209.85.214.174]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAA8A79 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obre1 with SMTP id e1so153529082obr.1 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 06:00:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150723121025.GA29747@amd> References: <20150723105711.GB30929@amd> <20150723121025.GA29747@amd> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: From: Linus Walleij To: Pavel Machek Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Alan Tull , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] FPGAs and how to program them from kernel List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2015-07-23 13:26:32, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek 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 >> 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 wrote: > Alan Cox ;) (Happens easily, Linus Torvalds asked me to change my name to avoid confusion...) Yours, Linus Walleij