[PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.
David Daney
ddaney at caviumnetworks.com
Wed Sep 23 09:00:36 PDT 2015
On 09/23/2015 12:51 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 September 2015 17:09:56 David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>
>>
>> The Cavium ThunderX SoC needs a PCI quirk for its on-chip bridges.
>> Since it is arm64, create a new quirks.c file there to contain arm64
>> related quirks. Add the ThunderX bridge quirk, gated by a new config
>> variable, so that it can be disabled for kernels that aren't expected
>> to be used on ThunderX.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
>> arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 2 +-
>> arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c
>>
>
> Looks reasonable to me. Just one question: Is the same bridge used
> on MIPS machines?
No. The MIPS64 based OCTEON family of SoCs does not contain
PCI-buses/config-space/bridges for on-chip hardware blocks. The on-chip
blocks in OCTEON are all platform devices. So, ...
> If so, maybe it should be moved to drivers/pci/quirks.c
> instead for better reuse.
The quirk is specific to some arm64 based SoCs, thus my idea to have
arch specific quirks.
David Daney
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