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[cc: CASPER]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> 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

I'm adding the CASPER list to see if anyone is interested.  CASPER is
a big Berkeley-based project that, among other things, designs
powerful programmable boards with PowerPC CPUs running Linux and giant
FPGAs for signal processing and I/O.

https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH2

I haven't used ROACH2, but I've used ROACH a bunch, and it would be
really nice if there was a standard Linux API for dealing with FPGAs.

--Andy