[PATCH v4 0/4] Loadable Module support for PCIe Cadence and J721E
Manivannan Sadhasivam
manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org
Mon Apr 21 02:00:42 PDT 2025
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:14:04 +0530, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> This series enables support to build the PCIe Cadence Controller drivers
> and the PCI J721E Application/Wrapper/Glue driver as Loadable Kernel
> Modules. The motivation for this series is that PCIe is not a necessity
> for booting the SoC, due to which it doesn't have to be a built-in
> module. Additionally, the defconfig doesn't enable the PCIe Cadence
> Controller drivers and the PCI J721E driver, due to which PCIe is not
> supported by default. Enabling the configs as of now (i.e. without this
> series) will result in built-in drivers i.e. a bloated Linux Image for
> everyone who doesn't have the PCIe Controller. Therefore, with this
> series, after enabling support for building the drivers as loadable
> modules, the driver configs can be enabled in the defconfig to build
> the drivers as loadable modules, thereby enabling PCIe.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/4] PCI: cadence: Add support to build pcie-cadence library as a kernel module
commit: b51c6fee0a06b71e9bf610f4b294426d0a1f1b51
[2/4] PCI: cadence-host: Introduce cdns_pcie_host_disable helper for cleanup
commit: 23c498ea9abd7bed7d0f8c1c5f63459100b01028
[3/4] PCI: cadence-ep: Introduce cdns_pcie_ep_disable helper for cleanup
commit: 5f8c840aa407588a7eae89af1301ba19c307aab7
[4/4] PCI: j721e: Add support to build as a loadable module
commit: 7a68d4ab59fa66ebbd9b8abdbffcaf748e109ad7
Best regards,
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Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
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