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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ARM: move bridge enable out of
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On Monday, March 03, 2008 12:35 pm Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I think that would be a good thing to shoot for.  Even on PCs there are 
times when we need resource allocation to be done (or re-done) by the kernel 
for hotplug or just because the platform is pared down enough that it doesn't 
to it all by itself.

I might be able to find time to look into that myself in the next few weeks; I 
think we even have some open PCI bugs that could be solved by better resource 
allocation.

Jesse