From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] ARM: Add imprecise abort enable/disable macro
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:54:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F8E81E.70804@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140210141634.GA2794@e103592.cambridge.arm.com>
On 10/02/14 14:16, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:19:15PM +0100, Fabrice GASNIER wrote:
>> This patch adds imprecise abort enable/disable macros.
>> It also enables imprecise aborts when starting kernel.
>
> Relying on imprecise aborts for hardware probing would be considered bad
> hardware and/or software design for ARM-specific stuff.
>
> PCI is more generic though, so we may have to put up with this to some
> extent. Can you point me to the affected probing code? I'm not very
> familiar with that stuff...
The marvell pcie always had the option of delivering any bus
errors as imprecise aborts. However it was /annoying/ and therefore
easier just to turn it off and rely on the hardware returning 0xffff
for any configuration area it couldn't get to.
--
Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/
Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-07 16:19 [RFC PATCH] ARM: Enable imprecise external aborts earlier Fabrice GASNIER
2014-02-07 16:19 ` [RFC PATCH] ARM: Add imprecise abort enable/disable macro Fabrice GASNIER
2014-02-07 17:09 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-10 8:50 ` Fabrice Gasnier
2014-02-10 9:00 ` Ben Dooks
2014-02-10 13:32 ` Fabrice Gasnier
2014-02-10 11:17 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-10 13:54 ` Fabrice Gasnier
2014-02-10 13:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10 14:12 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-10 14:42 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 15:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10 16:28 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 16:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10 17:28 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 13:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10 14:16 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 14:44 ` Fabrice Gasnier
2014-02-10 15:12 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 15:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10 16:36 ` Fabrice Gasnier
2014-02-10 14:54 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2014-02-10 15:21 ` Dave Martin
2014-02-10 16:38 ` Ben Dooks
2014-02-11 15:38 ` Dave Martin
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