diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
similarity index 89%
rename from Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt
rename to Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
index 6df4621c3f2a..2f125abd777f 100644
--- a/Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-===============================================================================
-              FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Framework Overview
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-                Enno Luebbers <enno.luebbers@intel.com>
-                Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
-                Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
+=================================================
+FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Framework Overview
+=================================================
+
+Authors:
+
+- Enno Luebbers <enno.luebbers@intel.com>
+- Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
+- Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
 
 The Device Feature List (DFL) FPGA framework (and drivers according to this
 this framework) hides the very details of low layer hardwares and provides
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ Device Feature List (DFL) defines a linked list of feature headers within the
 device MMIO space to provide an extensible way of adding features. Software can
 walk through these predefined data structures to enumerate FPGA features:
 FPGA Interface Unit (FIU), Accelerated Function Unit (AFU) and Private Features,
-as illustrated below:
+as illustrated below::
 
     Header            Header            Header            Header
  +----------+  +-->+----------+  +-->+----------+  +-->+----------+
@@ -81,9 +84,9 @@ and release it using close().
 
 The following functions are exposed through ioctls:
 
- Get driver API version (DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION)
- Check for extensions (DFL_FPGA_CHECK_EXTENSION)
- Program bitstream (DFL_FPGA_FME_PORT_PR)
+- Get driver API version (DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION)
+- Check for extensions (DFL_FPGA_CHECK_EXTENSION)
+- Program bitstream (DFL_FPGA_FME_PORT_PR)
 
 More functions are exposed through sysfs
 (/sys/class/fpga_region/regionX/dfl-fme.n/):
@@ -118,18 +121,19 @@ port by using open() on the port device node and release it using close().
 
 The following functions are exposed through ioctls:
 
- Get driver API version (DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION)
- Check for extensions (DFL_FPGA_CHECK_EXTENSION)
- Get port info (DFL_FPGA_PORT_GET_INFO)
- Get MMIO region info (DFL_FPGA_PORT_GET_REGION_INFO)
- Map DMA buffer (DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_MAP)
- Unmap DMA buffer (DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_UNMAP)
- Reset AFU (*DFL_FPGA_PORT_RESET)
+- Get driver API version (DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION)
+- Check for extensions (DFL_FPGA_CHECK_EXTENSION)
+- Get port info (DFL_FPGA_PORT_GET_INFO)
+- Get MMIO region info (DFL_FPGA_PORT_GET_REGION_INFO)
+- Map DMA buffer (DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_MAP)
+- Unmap DMA buffer (DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_UNMAP)
+- Reset AFU (DFL_FPGA_PORT_RESET)
 
-*DFL_FPGA_PORT_RESET: reset the FPGA Port and its AFU. Userspace can do Port
-reset at any time, e.g. during DMA or Partial Reconfiguration. But it should
-never cause any system level issue, only functional failure (e.g. DMA or PR
-operation failure) and be recoverable from the failure.
+DFL_FPGA_PORT_RESET:
+  reset the FPGA Port and its AFU. Userspace can do Port
+  reset at any time, e.g. during DMA or Partial Reconfiguration. But it should
+  never cause any system level issue, only functional failure (e.g. DMA or PR
+  operation failure) and be recoverable from the failure.
 
 User-space applications can also mmap() accelerator MMIO regions.
 
@@ -143,6 +147,8 @@ More functions are exposed through sysfs:
 DFL Framework Overview
 ======================
 
+::
+
          +----------+    +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
          |   FME    |    |  AFU   | |  AFU   | |  AFU   |
          |  Module  |    | Module | | Module | | Module |
@@ -151,7 +157,7 @@ DFL Framework Overview
                  | FPGA Container Device |    Device Feature List
                  |  (FPGA Base Region)   |         Framework
                  +-----------------------+
---------------------------------------------------------------------
+  ------------------------------------------------------------------
                +----------------------------+
                |   FPGA DFL Device Module   |
                | (e.g. PCIE/Platform Device)|
@@ -220,7 +226,7 @@ the sysfs hierarchy under /sys/class/fpga_region.
 In the example below, two DFL based FPGA devices are installed in the host. Each
 fpga device has one FME and two ports (AFUs).
 
-FPGA regions are created under /sys/class/fpga_region/
+FPGA regions are created under /sys/class/fpga_region/::
 
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/region0
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/region1
@@ -231,7 +237,7 @@ Application needs to search each regionX folder, if feature device is found,
 (e.g. "dfl-port.n" or "dfl-fme.m" is found), then it's the base
 fpga region which represents the FPGA device.
 
-Each base region has one FME and two ports (AFUs) as child devices:
+Each base region has one FME and two ports (AFUs) as child devices::
 
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/region0/dfl-fme.0
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/region0/dfl-port.0
@@ -243,7 +249,7 @@ Each base region has one FME and two ports (AFUs) as child devices:
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/region3/dfl-port.3
 	...
 
-In general, the FME/AFU sysfs interfaces are named as follows:
+In general, the FME/AFU sysfs interfaces are named as follows::
 
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/<regionX>/<dfl-fme.n>/
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/<regionX>/<dfl-port.m>/
@@ -251,7 +257,7 @@ In general, the FME/AFU sysfs interfaces are named as follows:
 with 'n' consecutively numbering all FMEs and 'm' consecutively numbering all
 ports.
 
-The device nodes used for ioctl() or mmap() can be referenced through:
+The device nodes used for ioctl() or mmap() can be referenced through::
 
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/<regionX>/<dfl-fme.n>/dev
 	/sys/class/fpga_region/<regionX>/<dfl-port.n>/dev
diff --git a/Documentation/fpga/index.rst b/Documentation/fpga/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c87d1ea084f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/fpga/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+:orphan:
+
+====
+fpga
+====
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 1
+
+    dfl
+
+.. only::  subproject and html
+
+   Indices
+   =======
+
+   * :ref:`genindex`
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9f83a79fdfdb..cc11aea722c8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6270,7 +6270,7 @@ FPGA DFL DRIVERS
 M:	Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
 L:	linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
-F:	Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt
+F:	Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
 F:	include/uapi/linux/fpga-dfl.h
 F:	drivers/fpga/dfl*
 
