linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into

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Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:11:06 -0800
From:   Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf



On 2019-10-11 6:31 a.m., Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:24:22 +0200,
>> Scott Branden wrote:
>>> I will admit I am not familiar with every subtlety of PCI
>>> accesses. Any comments to the Valkyrie driver in this patch series are
>>> appreciated.
>>> But not all drivers need to work on all architectures. I can add a
>>> depends on x86 64bit architectures to the driver to limit it to such.
>> But it's an individual board on PCIe, and should work no matter which
>> architecture is?  Or is this really exclusive to x86?
> Poke Scott.
>
>    Luis
Yes, this is exclusive to x86.
In particular, 64-bit x86 server class machines with PCIe gen3 support.
There is no reason for these PCIe boards to run in other lower end 
machines or architectures.