[RFC v1] PCIe support for the Armada 370 and Armada XP SoCs

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at avionic-design.de
Thu Jan 3 11:01:06 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:56:31PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2013, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > Stephen proposed drivers/pci/host on IRC and I second that.
> 
> Agreed, I like that, too. There is a little problem with cross-platform
> PCI hosts still because some portion of the interface is still arch
> specific, but I don't see this as a show-stopper for moving drivers
> there. The ARM specific drivers can still use the ARM interfaces
> for now, until everything is made generic. If they are going to
> be shared with other architectures, those can use the same interfaces
> that ARM has. I think Microblaze, ARC and Metag are strong candidates
> for doing this.

Great, sounds like a plan. I'll move Tegra PCIe into drivers/pci/host
then.

Thierry
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