[PATCH 2/3] PCI: host: new PCI host controller driver for Marvell Armada 3700

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jun 9 05:36:21 PDT 2016


Hello,

On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:19:07 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > There is a GIC-500, but Marcin told me that attempts to use MSI with it
> > have not been successful so far. There will be investigation on this
> > topic in the future, but for the moment, we'd like to have the MSI
> > functionality built into the PCIe driver supported. We can migrate
> > later to GIC-500 powered MSIs once working.  
> 
> I think you should still add the msi-parent or msi-map properties then,
> just have them point at the PCI host node instead of the GIC-500,
> and evaluate that to get the built-in controller.

Sure, I'll have a look at doing that.

Thomas
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