Subject: Sharing PCIE driver between Microblaze and Arm zynq

From: [email-masked] (Michal Simek)
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:52:15 +0100

On 12/07/2012 02:17 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:23:14 +0100, Michal Simek <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have a question regarding to sharing generic OF pcie driver between
>> two architectures MB and ARM Zynq.
>> Is drivers/pci/pcie location good for it?
>> Make no sense to have the same driver in two locations.
>> Is using readl/writel IO functions in this driver the best option
>> which we can have?
>> Or is there any other recommendation?

Grant: What do you think about readl/iowrite usage in connection to PCI?

>> Also just want to check if it is correct to use pcie device_type.
>> The rest should be the same with pci description:
>> (http://devicetree.org/MPC5200:PCI#PCI_Address_Translation).
>
> Yes. device_type may be deprecated, but the PCI binding predates that.

If it is deprecated, there could be probably problem with early_init_dt_scan_memory()
which is checking memory device_type (drivers/of/fdt.c).

> PowerPC uses pcie in the device type. arch/powerpc/kernel/of_platform.c

ok. I see.

> Some of that powerpc DT PCI support code really should be made generic.

yep.

Thanks,
Michal

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