Documentation: fpga: dfl: Add description for DFL UIO support

This patch adds description for UIO support for dfl devices on DFL
bus.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1615168776-8553-3-git-send-email-yilun.xu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
index c41ac76..f3a1223 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Authors:
 - Enno Luebbers <enno.luebbers@intel.com>
 - Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
 - Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
+- Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
 
 The Device Feature List (DFL) FPGA framework (and drivers according to
 this framework) hides the very details of low layer hardwares and provides
@@ -530,6 +531,31 @@ Being able to specify more than one DFL per BAR has been considered, but it
 was determined the use case did not provide value.  Specifying a single DFL
 per BAR simplifies the implementation and allows for extra error checking.
 
+
+Userspace driver support for DFL devices
+========================================
+The purpose of an FPGA is to be reprogrammed with newly developed hardware
+components. New hardware can instantiate a new private feature in the DFL, and
+then present a DFL device in the system. In some cases users may need a
+userspace driver for the DFL device:
+
+* Users may need to run some diagnostic test for their hardware.
+* Users may prototype the kernel driver in user space.
+* Some hardware is designed for specific purposes and does not fit into one of
+  the standard kernel subsystems.
+
+This requires direct access to MMIO space and interrupt handling from
+userspace. The uio_dfl module exposes the UIO device interfaces for this
+purpose.
+
+Currently the uio_dfl driver only supports the Ether Group sub feature, which
+has no irq in hardware. So the interrupt handling is not added in this driver.
+
+UIO_DFL should be selected to enable the uio_dfl module driver. To support a
+new DFL feature via UIO direct access, its feature id should be added to the
+driver's id_table.
+
+
 Open discussion
 ===============
 FME driver exports one ioctl (DFL_FPGA_FME_PORT_PR) for partial reconfiguration