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Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.

From David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.
Date 2015-09-23 18:10 +0200
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On 09/23/2015 12:51 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 September 2015 17:09:56 David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>>
>> The Cavium ThunderX SoC needs a PCI quirk for its on-chip bridges.
>> Since it is arm64, create a new quirks.c file there to contain arm64
>> related quirks.  Add the ThunderX bridge quirk, gated by a new config
>> variable, so that it can be disabled for kernels that aren't expected
>> to be used on ThunderX.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig         | 11 +++++++++++
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile |  2 +-
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c
>>
>
> Looks reasonable to me. Just one question: Is the same bridge used
> on MIPS machines?

No.  The MIPS64 based OCTEON family of SoCs does not contain 
PCI-buses/config-space/bridges for on-chip hardware blocks.  The on-chip 
blocks in OCTEON are all platform devices.  So, ...

> If so, maybe it should be moved to drivers/pci/quirks.c
> instead for better reuse.

The quirk is specific to some arm64 based SoCs, thus my idea to have 
arch specific quirks.

David Daney


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[PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 02:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-23 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges. David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-09-23 18:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-23 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges. Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-23 20:50 +0200

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