[PATCH v4 5/6] PCI: layerscape: add PCIe support for LS1043a and LS2080a

Li Yang leoli at freescale.com
Thu Oct 22 12:17:34 PDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Li Yang wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:19:19PM +0800, Minghuan Lian wrote:
>> >> Both LS1043a and LS2080a are based on ARMv8 64-bit architecture
>> >> and have similar PCIe implementation. LUT is added to controller.
>> >> The patch removes the necessary fields from struct ls_pcie.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Minghuan Lian <Minghuan.Lian at freescale.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> This patch is based on v4.3-rc4 and [PATCH v10 3/6]
>> >> PCI: designware: Add ARM64 support.
>>
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> Are you also applying this patch
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/531184/ in this merge windows?
>> Because the new hardware can only work with the generic ARM64 support
>> added in the designware pcie driver.
>
> I'm reviewing that patch right now, and I do hope to apply it for
> v4.4.
>
> There was no cover letter for this series (Minghuan's Layerscape v4
> series), and I didn't see any mention of dependencies, so I applied it
> on top of v4.3-rc1.  Is that the wrong thing to do?  If it depends on
> the Zhou's v11 series, I can hold the Layerscape branch until after
> that.

I don't know if this patch will break anything without Zhou's patch.
But the new hardware mentioned in the description will not be working
without the dependent patch.  We should hold this patch until after
the generic change is merged.  Minghuan, are there any bug fixing
patch in the series that need to be merged earlier?

Regards,
Leo



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