[PATCH 1/2] Add sysdev/pci_quirks.c file into PowerPCarchitecture with ULI chip quirk functions.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 2 14:29:12 EST 2007


On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:17 +0800, Zhang Wei-r63237 wrote:
>> Hi, Ben,
>>
>>>
>>> Are we sure that any powerpc machine that uses that ULI chip will  
>>> need
>>> the same quirk setting ?
>>>
>>
>> We can ensure current platforms (as far as we know, MPC8544DS and
>> MPC8641HPCN) using ULI chips in powerpc of kernel need the same quirk
>> setting.
>> And we hope to make them more generic. And if there are some  
>> different
>> setting in the future, we can add special codes.
>
> All right.

My feeling is this code is pretty specific to how the ULI M1575 is  
used on those boards and should only be built for those boards.

- k



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