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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add MPC837x PCIE controller RC mode support
From: Li Li <r64360@freescale.com>
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On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:14 +0800, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> After some more research, I noticed that the distinction between 
> primary and secondary host bridges will go away _anyway_, so 
> I guess we shouldn't worry about it too much.
> 
> On powerpc64, we already don't care, as the
> arch/powerpc/kernel/isa-bridge.c 
> code takes care of legacy I/O areas there, instead of the PCI code. 
> It's only needed on machines with legacy ISA devices (PC keyboard, 
> floppy, ...), and those can be converted to use the isa-bridge code 
> at some point.
> 

This is really a good new :)

- Tony