[PATCH 0/24] powerpc: 4xx PCI, PCI-X and PCI-Express support among others

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Dec 1 07:17:56 EST 2007


On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:10:38 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Here's a set of patches that bring PCI, PCI-X and PCI-Express
> support to 4xx on arch/powerpc. It also changes/fixed various
> bits and pieces, such as a bit of rework of arch/powerpc/boot
> 4xx code, adding a couple of new platforms along the way. 
> 
> There are some issues with the SCSI stack vs. non-coherent
> DMA that I'm working on fixing separately, and there's a
> problem I noticed with the e1000 driver vs. 64 bits resources
> on 32 bits architectures for which I also have a patch that
> I posted separately. Appart from that, I got it working fine
> with a USB2 card in an ebony and 2 USB storage devices.
> 
> Some of these patches are _NOT_ yet candidate for merging
> (mostly the board support ones), but you can review them and
> Josh can put them in an experimental tree.

I've added these to the 2.6.25-candidates branch in my tree.  Fixed up
the few conflicts manually.  I'll expect refreshes before merging
anyway, but I'd like to get these out there for people to play with.

josh



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