On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:18:02 +0000 "Ma, Peter" peter.ma@intel.com wrote:
I would like to hear your thoughts about introducing an override to allow smaller data file sizes to be programmed. Thanks.
Hi,
where would the data be put then? Should it be top-aligned like in all x86 firmwares, should it be starting at 0 like in many other applications (not sure about FPGA bit stream storage but I guess it is one of these), or does it need to be put to another offset (like when updating only parts of an image? As you see the trivial override switch you suggest does not work that well in many situations. However, we are of course aware of that and there is a fix for this in the pipeline (referred to as layout patches) that will allow to define names for address regions and use files matching those address ranges in size to be flashed without a complete image.
Regarding your use case: is the bit stream image to be written to flash always of a fixed size or does it depend on the code? I think that's something we did not mind yet.