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

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:36:42 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.

On Wednesday 23 September 2015 09:00:36 David Daney wrote:
> 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@...ium.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@...ium.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.

Ok.

	Arnd
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