From: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: mvebu: Restrict build to 32-bit ARM
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:34:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egcaqe89.fsf@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5051836.EUN3ennYNm@wuerfel> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:06:23 +0100")
Hi Arnd,
On jeu., févr. 18 2016, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 February 2016 14:32:10 Thierry Reding wrote:
>> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>>
>> This driver uses PCI glue that is only available on 32-bit ARM. This
>> used to work fine as long as ARCH_MVEBU and ARCH_DOVE were exclusively
>> 32-bit, but that's changed now, with ARCH_MVEBU also being available
>> on 64-bit ARM.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>
> Looks fine as a temporary workaround, but I think what we really want to
> do here is to remove the dependency, as the new ARM64 platforms are going
> to need this driver anyway.
Actually the mvebu ARM64 platform we know about (Armada 3700, 7K and
8K), won't use the same controller. A7K/A8K will use a synopsis IP and
Armada 3700 a new Marvell IP.
So for me depending on ARM32 is enough.
Gregory
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 13:32 [PATCH] PCI: mvebu: Restrict build to 32-bit ARM Thierry Reding
2016-02-18 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 14:24 ` Thierry Reding
2016-02-18 14:34 ` Gregory CLEMENT [this message]
2016-02-18 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 14:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-02-26 19:31 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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