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From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista•com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@mvista•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Sandpoint added to 2_5 tree
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:12:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA7CB70.DCF55576@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AA6F769.E9EE5931@mvista.com


Dan Malek wrote:

> "Mark A. Greer" wrote:
> >
> > For those of you with sandpoints, there has been sandpoint support
> > pushed out into the 2_5 tree.  It requires the patch at:
> > ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/sandpoint/sp_patch_2_5
>
> This is a "don't touch yourself", right?  Shouldn't this be generally
> useful (or required)?  Why don't other architectures have this
> problem and can we create a generic solution (i.e. we shouldn't have
> to hard-code the device number)?

Yes, its the "don't touch yourself" problem with 824x & 107 bridges.
Most boards don't have the IDSEL wired up so its not an issue for them.
I expect more & more people to start wiring it up, though, so I think it
will become more of an issue.

Yes, there should be some general feature for skipping PCI slots, it
just doesn't exist yet.  There are 2 places that this skip needs to be
put in, drivers/pci/pci.c and arch/ppc/kerner/pci_auto.c.  I chose to
make a patch instead of cluttering up those files (plus the
drivers/pci/pci.c #ifdef would probably never be accepted into
kernel.org).

Matt Porter has a scheme for doing the skipping (plus other stuff), he
just hasn't had the time to do it yet.

Mark


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-08 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-06  0:03 Sandpoint added to 2_5 tree Mark A. Greer
2001-03-08  3:07 ` Dan Malek
2001-03-08 10:51   ` Matt Porter
2001-03-08 18:12   ` Mark A. Greer [this message]

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