From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Daire.McNamara@microchip.com, amurray@thegoodpenguin.co.uk,
lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/1] PCI: microchip: Add host driver for Microchip PCIe controller
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:15:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429151538.GA26094@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200429145703.GB26461@infradead.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:57:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:44:05PM +0000, Daire.McNamara@microchip.com wrote:
> > > why?
> > The PCIe hardware is only available on 64-bit RISCV based
> > platforms at the moment. Our intention is to extend the driver,
> > at a later date, as and when the hardware becomes available.
>
> I'll let the actual PCIe maintainer speak, but normally we try to
> allow drivers to build on all platforms unless they have an actual
> code platform depency. And as far as I can tell this driver doesn't
> actually depend on RISC-V specific code.
Agreed; if the driver doesn't actually depend on interfaces that are
RISC-V-specific, we should be able to compile-test it on other arches.
Bjorn
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-29 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 9:37 [PATCH v8 0/1] PCI: microchip: Add host driver for Microchip PCIe controller Daire.McNamara
2020-04-29 11:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-29 14:44 ` Daire.McNamara
2020-04-29 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-29 15:15 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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