Upstreaming ?

[wpwrak]

I wonder what the chances are for dtbocfg making its way into upstream. As far as I understand things, there currently doesn't seem to be a way to load PL with what's in the plain vanilla kernel, and you either need dtbocfg or the Xilinx fork to do that. Would be nice to have that available directly in mainline.

[ikwzm]

Thank you for the issue

I also want configfs to be introduced into the Linux Kernel mainline.
However, in December 2014, a similar patch was posted to the Linux Kernel by Pantelis Antoniou, but it had no effect.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/28/1022
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/26/185

If everyone makes a request now, it may come true.

[wpwrak]

Great, thanks ! I'm not so sure about configfs itself (not on technical grounds, but having yet another layer of kernel bureaucracy added ... there's already plenty of that), but the underlying question would be how people use the PL loader today. As far as I understand it, there is no way without some kernel changes or out-of-tree modules, which in turn makes me wonder how much use this loader mechanism is actually seeing, and why it has been left in such a seemingly unfinished state.

[ljanyst]

This is great! Perhaps you could give it a try and mainline it? The attempt you point to above happened 6 years ago...