[PATCH 5/7] Enable MSI mappings for MPIC

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 23:53 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >> This is just begging to be written in terms of
> >> pci_bus_find_ht_capability.  Well,
> >> we have pci_bus_find_capability, and pci_find_ht_capability, I'm sure
> >> we could
> >> create that.   It also means this and the other nearby functions want
> >> to be
> >> written in terms of a struct pci_bus and config accessors.
> >
> > A lot of that code has to run way before the PCI config stuff is even
> > useable and certainly before the PCI layer data structures have been
> > created.... Sucks but that's how it is for now. We might be able to
> > tweak and delay init of the APICs etc... but I don't think I can be
> > bothered for now as it's a bit of a corner case.
> >
> 
> I wasn't proposing to make the code wait until the pci layer had
> discovered the ht bridge.  Rather I was thinking that a struct
> pci_bus instance created for the purpose with only ops and maybe
> sysdata initialized.  The purpose being to reuse the generic code.

That'd be nice in a way. Although there'd be scope for breakage from
time to time as PCI changes get made without taking into account this
special case.

> Maybe I'll have to code something up.   Perhaps when I'm a bit
> less overloaded.

All yours :)

cheers

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