[PATCH 0/8] i.MX6 PCIe binding change and MSI support

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas at google.com
Fri Apr 25 07:39:38 PDT 2014


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 24.04.2014, 11:58 -0600 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 05:52:51PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
>> > While working on MSI support for the i.MX6 PCIe host driver
>> > it has been discovered that the binding for this host controller
>> > is broken in many ways (refer to the patch descriptions for more
>> > info) and was introduced without proper discussion about what
>> > should/should not be in the binding.
>> >
>> > This series fixes this and minimizes the difference of the
>> > i.MX6 binding to the common designware PCIe binding. I'm aware
>> > that this is a quite radical change, but I think it's justified
>> > to do this as long as there aren't many user of the old binding
>> > (most of the optional properties in the binding aren't even
>> > implemented).
>> >
>> > Looking forward to your feedback.
>> >
>> > Lucas Stach (8):
>> >   ARM: imx6q-clk: parent lvds_gate from lvds_sel
> This one is already applied.
>
>> >   PCI: designware: split Exynos and i.MX bindings
>> >   ARM: dts: imx6: update pcie to bring in line with new binding
>> >   PCI: imx6: use new clock names
>> >   PCI: imx6: drop old irq mapping
>> >   PCI: imx6: rip out optional (and unused) irqs
>> >   PCI: designware: make MSI isr shared irq aware
>> >   PCI: imx6: add support for MSI
>>
>> What's the status of all these?  I would normally apply patches 4-8 of this
>> series through my tree, given the appropriate acks, but I haven't seen
>> those yet.  And I'm not sure what dependencies there are between the
>> non-PCI patches and the PCI ones.
>>
> It's a complete binding change, so applying one part without the other
> is going to horribly break things.
>
> So I would at least want to see an ack for the binding change on the
> i.MX side from Shawn and Richard. This will need some follow on patches,
> as some boards adding PCIe using the old binding have cropped up in
> linux-next, but I can do the patches on short notice if everyone agrees
> to merge this patchset.
>
> The designware part is pretty simple and doesn't change anything for
> other users than i.MX. Though I would like to see an ack from Jingoo for
> those.
>
> I have some more stuff in the pipes regarding multiple MSI irqs, that
> depend on this series and also the Keystone people are waiting for this
> to be applied in order to consolidate the clock handling of the
> designware core driver, so it would be nice to get this moving again.

OK, just poke me again when you're ready for me to do something with these.

Bjorn



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