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14 years ago

PCIe device disconnect/disable needed to reprogram FPGA

I am using the Altera Stratix IV dev kit. The FPGA is in a PCIe slot on a system running Linux. Is there a way (i.e., some Linux commands or some other method) for me to be able to disconnect/disab...
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14 years ago

The more normal case is that you reprogram the flash that contains the data and then reboot/power cycle the system to pick up the new fpga image before linux has booted.

I think we actually load all our fpga images from uboot.