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@@ -501,6 +501,34 @@ Developer only needs to provide a sub feature driver with matched feature id.
FME Partial Reconfiguration Sub Feature driver (see drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c)
could be a reference.
+Location of DFLs on a PCI Device
+================================
+The original method for finding a DFL on a PCI device assumed the start of the
+first DFL to offset 0 of bar 0. If the first node of the DFL is an FME,
+then further DFLs in the port(s) are specified in FME header registers.
+Alternatively, a PCIe vendor specific capability structure can be used to
+specify the location of all the DFLs on the device, providing flexibility
+for the type of starting node in the DFL. Intel has reserved the
+VSEC ID of 0x43 for this purpose. The vendor specific
+data begins with a 4 byte vendor specific register for the number of DFLs followed 4 byte
+Offset/BIR vendor specific registers for each DFL. Bits 2:0 of Offset/BIR register
+indicates the BAR, and bits 31:3 form the 8 byte aligned offset where bits 2:0 are
+zero.
+::
+
+ +----------------------------+
+ |31 Number of DFLS 0|
+ +----------------------------+
+ |31 Offset 3|2 BIR 0|
+ +----------------------------+
+ . . .
+ +----------------------------+
+ |31 Offset 3|2 BIR 0|
+ +----------------------------+
+
+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.
Open discussion
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