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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1011290912270.10937@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:12:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@...glemail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>,
Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@...glemail.com>,
Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Gemini: Add support for PCI Bus
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2010 14:01:20 Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > index db524e7..74ea522 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ config ISA_DMA_API
> > bool
> >
> > config PCI
> > - bool "PCI support" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR_AP || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB ||
> > ARCH_IXP4XX || ARCH_KS8695 || MACH_ARMCORE || ARCH_CNS3XXX
> > + bool "PCI support" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR_AP || ARCH_VERSATILE_PB ||
> > ARCH_IXP4XX || ARCH_KS8695 || MACH_ARMCORE || ARCH_CNS3XXX ||
> > ARCH_GEMINI
> > help
> > Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
> > bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
> >
>
> This approach really does not scale as we add more boards to the list.
>
> Better make a new CONFIG_HAVE_PCI option that you can select from the
> individual boards, and make that the only dependency that CONFIG_PCI has.
>
> Arnd
>
Good idea.
I write a patch for this.
Ulli
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