Bjorn, Lorenzo, On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:22:28 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > The pci-mvebu driver already contains some logic to emulate a root > port PCI bridge. It turns out that we have a similar need for the > pci-aardvark driver. Instead of duplicating the same logic in two > drivers, this patch series starts by adding a small common > infrastructure that helps emulate a root port PCI bridge, converts > pci-mvebu to use it, and finally extends pci-aardvark to use it as > well. > > Thanks to this, Marvell Armada 3720 based systems, which use the > Aarkvark PCI controller, will have better PCI support, by having a > root port PCI bridge exposed. > > The emulated PCI bridge common logic is a proposal, I very much > welcome comments and suggestions. Also, if you feel that adding a > common logic for only two drivers is too early, I'm fine with > duplicating a bit of code betwen pci-mvebu and pci-aardvark. I was wondering if you had any feedback on this patch series. Not necessarily a detailed review, but at least some general feeling/feedback on the overall approach would be very nice. Thanks a lot, Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
