From: Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>, <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
<CARLOS.PALMINHA@synopsys.com>, <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>,
<robh+dt@kernel.org>, <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
<mark.rutland@arm.com>, <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
<galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] add new platform driver for PCI RC
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:50:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B4C4CE.2020303@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3217683.43eupG8Vx4@wuerfel>
On 2/5/2016 3:43 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 05 February 2016 14:51:39 Joao Pinto wrote:
>>
>> It is a driver that is useful for PCIe RC prototyping and to be a reference
>> platform driver for DesignWare PCIe RC, I don't know if merging some of the
>> driver's code into pcie-designware is really necessary depends on the usefulness
>> of it. I would suggest that bigger step to be done in a 2nd stage since I will
>> be around to maintain what's necessary. Agree?
>>
>> I made a patch that is applicable to Bjorn's host/pcie-synopsys that tries to
>> match your suggestions and Bjorn's. Could you please comment check it?
>
> I think it would be useful to do this as generic as possible, and you seem
> to be the right person to integrate it into the generic driver as you have
> access to the hardware documents. Normally the folks writing the drivers
> are just guessing based on what little information they get out of manuals
> or vendor-provided drivers, but I'm sure that not all of that makes sense.
Arnd, sure and I would love to be useful and improve the dw pci ecosystem, but
maybe now we should submit the driver as suggested in "[PATCH] synopsys pcie rc
generic platform driver update" and then make in a future intervention.
Bjorn, could you please comment? Should we go now with this driver version and
in the future we make the changes suggested by Arnd?
>
> Arnd
>
Joao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-05 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-04 15:52 [PATCH v8 0/2] adding PCI support to AXS10x Joao Pinto
2016-02-04 15:52 ` [PATCH v8 1/2] PCI support added to ARC Joao Pinto
2016-02-04 15:52 ` [PATCH v8 2/2] add new platform driver for PCI RC Joao Pinto
2016-02-04 18:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-02-04 18:31 ` Joao Pinto
2016-02-04 23:43 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-02-05 10:44 ` Joao Pinto
2016-02-05 14:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-05 14:51 ` Joao Pinto
2016-02-05 15:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-05 15:50 ` Joao Pinto [this message]
2016-02-05 23:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-02-08 12:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-08 12:52 ` Joao Pinto
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