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Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ARM: move bridge enable out of
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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:59 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:04 pm Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Move bridge enable from pcibios_enable_resources() to
> > platform_pci_enable_device() so the former matches other
> > architectures and can be shared.
> 
> I really like the direction of these patches.  Getting PCI resources assigned 
> & devices setup correctly for new arches has always been a bit more trouble 
> than it should be...

You'll noticed that I recently moved powerpc to something more common to
x86 in the are of resource allocation. Still -slightly- different but I
do believe there is room for somebody with some skills to try to turn
some of that into generic code.

Ben.