[RFC PATCH 0/4] Add ACPI support for HiSilicon PCIe Host Controllers

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Feb 8 05:55:11 PST 2016


On Monday 08 February 2016 13:17:58 Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> 
> Now I have removed the dependency from designware but I still think
> the best location for the code is in "drivers/pci/host/":
> the ACPI quirks share the config read/write functions with the DT
> driver, moreover for other hosts in future I think it makes sense
> to stay in "drivers/pci/host/" as they could even share more init
> code with their respective DT versions...

I haven't really followed what is going on with ACPI. Do you expect
to see future machines come out that are not just implementing SBSA
but that still need to run ACPI? I thought this was just a hack
for some early machines that only run with ACPI but are not actually
compliant.

	Arnd



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