[PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Wed Sep 23 12:36:42 PDT 2015
On Wednesday 23 September 2015 09:00:36 David Daney wrote:
> 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.
Ok.
Arnd
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