[PATCH v7 06/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Make PCI optional for ACPI on ARM64

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2015年01月18日 17:29, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 02:46:35PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2015年01月18日 14:31, Jon Masters wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Sorry for top posting from bed. The mainstream servers will all likely do
>>> PCIe but there are several that may not. They should not be excluded. That
>> said,
>>> if we booted a previously built kernel on a system without an MCFG and
>>> got no ECAM/root then things would probably still work.
>>>
>>> I think it'll work out either way but for the record there is no requirement to do PCIe on ARM servers that conform to spec.
>>
>> OK, Catalin already said that was not the main point of the
>> comments for this patch, I think the title and change log
>> of the patch is inconsistent with the code makes Catalin confused,
>> I will update them in next version.
>>
> Well what we are talking about is the presence of CONFIG_PCI=y which even
> in Jons case will be true as he wants to run the same kernel on both
> sets of hardware.
>
> Now the architecture has PCI support I think its safe to remove the make
> PCI optional part of the patch as this should be handled runtime not
> compile time.

I missed that part, must be something wrong work in Sunday :)
I will update the patch with ACPI depends on PCI, which makes
thing much simpler.

Thanks
Hanjun