Re: [RFC] Architecture independent pcibios?

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On 10/08/2013 10:31 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 18:13 +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
>> There are at least a handful of architectures that seem to share the same
>> implementation for most (all?) of the pcibios_*() functions. (PowerPC and
>> microblaze the most obvious offenders, x86 to a certain extent).
> 
> That's because microblaze started by copying the powerpc code :-) 

yes and the reason was that xilinx ppc405 and then ppc440 used
the same pci IPs that's why it was easier just to use this code.

I am keeping microblaze pcie driver out of mainline but definitely
unification work has to be done.

Thanks,
Michal

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