On 2/5/2016 3:43 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2016 14:51:39 Joao Pinto wrote: >> >> It is a driver that is useful for PCIe RC prototyping and to be a reference >> platform driver for DesignWare PCIe RC, I don't know if merging some of the >> driver's code into pcie-designware is really necessary depends on the usefulness >> of it. I would suggest that bigger step to be done in a 2nd stage since I will >> be around to maintain what's necessary. Agree? >> >> I made a patch that is applicable to Bjorn's host/pcie-synopsys that tries to >> match your suggestions and Bjorn's. Could you please comment check it? > > I think it would be useful to do this as generic as possible, and you seem > to be the right person to integrate it into the generic driver as you have > access to the hardware documents. Normally the folks writing the drivers > are just guessing based on what little information they get out of manuals > or vendor-provided drivers, but I'm sure that not all of that makes sense. Arnd, sure and I would love to be useful and improve the dw pci ecosystem, but maybe now we should submit the driver as suggested in "[PATCH] synopsys pcie rc generic platform driver update" and then make in a future intervention. Bjorn, could you please comment? Should we go now with this driver version and in the future we make the changes suggested by Arnd? > > Arnd > Joao
