Jeremy, Correct. programming devices and "updating firmware" I count as separate activities. Similar to CPU or GPU. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 5:52 PM To: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Cyborg][Ironic][Nova][Neutron][TripleO][Cinder] accelerators management On 2020-01-07 23:17:25 +0000 (+0000), Arkady.Kanevsky@dell.com wrote:
It is hard to image that any production env of any customer will allow anybody but administrator to update FW on any device at any time. The security implication are huge. [...]
I thought this was precisely the point of exposing FPGA hardware into server instances. Or do you not count programming those as "updating firmware?" -- Jeremy Stanley