linux-kernel - Re: xilinx-pci driver and pci in general

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:36:07 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	michal.simek@...alogix.com
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	thunderbird2k@....net, John Williams <john.williams@...alogix.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xilinx-pci driver and pci in general

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Michal Simek
<michal.simek@...alogix.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> We (John and partially I) did initial support for pci on Microblaze.
> It is based on powerpc files and almost everything is the same.
> There are some small differences which could be easily removed that's why I
> think that will be good to move that file to any generic location.
> That's why I would like to know your opinion about this step.
> If you don't like or prefer we will add that modified versions to
> arch/microblaze and in future we can merge them and move to any other
> location.
>
> Affected files: xilinx-pci.c, pci_32.c pci-common.c, indirect_pci.c and some
> headers.

My preference is to move the common bits to a common location first,
and then modify to make it suitable for Microblaze also.  I've just
finished doing a bunch of fdt merge work where PowerPC and Microblaze
diverged in subtle ways.  It isn't a whole lot of fun.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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