linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/3] MIPS: SGI-IP27 rework part2

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Message-ID: <20190507094245.GB10964@e121166-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 10:42:45 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/3] MIPS: SGI-IP27 rework part2

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 12:37:24PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:57:26 -0500
> Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:47:49PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > > SGI IP27 (Origin/Onyx2) and SGI IP30 (Octane) have a similair
> > > architecture and share some hardware (ioc3/bridge). To share
> > > the software parts this patchset reworks SGI IP27 interrupt
> > > and pci bridge code. By using features Linux gained during the
> > > many years since SGI IP27 code was integrated this even results
> > > in code reduction and IMHO cleaner code.
> > > 
> > > Tests have been done on a two module O200 (4 CPUs) and an
> > > Origin 2000 (8 CPUs).
> > 
> > Thanks for doing all this work!  It seems like it basically converts
> > some of the SGI PCI code to the structure typical of current host
> > controller drivers and moves it to drivers/pci/controller, which all
> > seems great to me.
> > 
> > The patches were kind of in limbo as far as Patchwork.  Lorenzo
> > handles the native host controller drivers, so I just delegated them
> > to him, so now they should be on his radar.
> 
> Is there a chance to still get this into v5.2 ?

I do not think so, I will have a look as soon as possible, sorry
for the delay.

Lorenzo