[PATCH v10 0/4] APM X-Gene PCIe host controller

Tanmay Inamdar tinamdar at apm.com
Thu Oct 2 12:24:09 PDT 2014


On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 01 October 2014 13:14:03 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:08:23PM -0700, Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
>>> > This patch adds support for AppliedMicro X-Gene PCIe host controller. The
>>> > driver is tested on X-Gene platform with different gen1/2/3 PCIe endpoint
>>> > cards.
>>> >
>>> > X-Gene PCIe controller driver has depedency on the pcie arm64 arch support.
>>> > Liviu Dudau from ARM has sent a patch set for pcie arm64 arch support and
>>> > support for creating generic pcie bridge from device tree. Liviu's patches
>>> > are available here
>>> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/23/852
>>> >
>>> > If someone wishes to test PCIe on X-Gene with this patch set, above mentioned
>>> > patches from Liviu must be applied before the patches in this patch set. Also
>>> > please use latest xgene u-boot firmware.
>>>
>>> I applied these on pci/host-xgene (based on pci/host-generic).  I hope to
>>> merge these for v3.18.  It'd be nice to have a device tree person like Arnd
>>> or Rob take a look at the arch/arm64/boot/dts/ bits.
>>
>> Those changes should normally go through the arm-soc tree, but we
>> have not done that so far for arm64 stuff, so I'm not blaming anybody.
>>
>> The dts changes all look good to me, and I think it's ok to have them
>> go through your tree this time.
>>
>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> In the future, we should all have an eye on this more to ensure that
>> the .dts changes all go through arm-soc.
>
> The arch/arm64/boot/dts patch is at the tip of my branch, and I'd be
> more than happy to drop it.  It would be nice to have it in v3.18
> along with the driver, though, so I'll keep it until somebody chimes
> in to put it in arm-soc.
>

Thanks Bjorn and Arnd.

> Bjorn



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