On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:57:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:44:05PM +0000, Daire.McNamara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > why? > > The PCIe hardware is only available on 64-bit RISCV based > > platforms at the moment. Our intention is to extend the driver, > > at a later date, as and when the hardware becomes available. > > I'll let the actual PCIe maintainer speak, but normally we try to > allow drivers to build on all platforms unless they have an actual > code platform depency. And as far as I can tell this driver doesn't > actually depend on RISC-V specific code. Agreed; if the driver doesn't actually depend on interfaces that are RISC-V-specific, we should be able to compile-test it on other arches. Bjorn
