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Linux kernel FPGA support

Alan Tull 2017

The main point of this project has been to separate the out the upper layers
that know when to reprogram a FPGA from the lower layers that know how to
reprogram a specific FPGA device.  The intention is to make this manufacturer
agnostic, understanding that of course the FPGA images are very device specific
themselves.

The framework in the kernel includes:
* low level FPGA manager drivers that know how to program a specific device
* the fpga-mgr framework they are registered with
* low level FPGA bridge drivers for hard/soft bridges which are intended to
  be disable during FPGA programming
* the fpga-bridge framework they are registered with
* the fpga-region framework which associates and controls managers and bridges
  as reconfigurable regions
* the of-fpga-region support for reprogramming FPGAs when device tree overlays
  are applied.

I would encourage you the user to add code that creates FPGA regions rather
that trying to control managers and bridges separately.