[PATCH 0/4] Marvell PCIe driver improvements

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu May 23 02:35:09 EDT 2013


Dear Willy Tarreau,

On Thu, 23 May 2013 02:13:53 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > You'll find in this patch series 4 small patches that make various
> > improvements to the Marvell PCIe driver.
> (...)
> 
> FWIW, these patches applied on top of your pcie-v10 tree have made
> my mini-pcie dual-nic appear for the first time on the mirabox. Till
> now I never knew if it was a hardware or software issue since the NIC
> does not appear in u-boot nor lspci, whatever the kernel versions,
> including the original Marvell one's. The NIC has two functions (one
> per controller) and no bridge, so it may be a side effect of your
> improvements (or maybe you fixed a bug).

Hum, interesting. Can you show the output of lspci -v and lspci -t
(which a pciutils version of lspci, not Busybox one) ? I'm interested
in seeing the layout of the PCIe bus with such a device, to get a
better understanding.

> Anyway for me it's a great improvement !
> 
> I've not tried it on the OpenBlocks AX3 yet (it was not detected
> there previously). But I have good hopes.
> 
> For reference, the NIC is Jetway's ADMPEIDLA (intel i350-AM2).

Should I be taking this as a formal Tested-by from you? :-)

Thanks!

Thomas
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