[RFC/PATCH 0/10] powerpc: PCI updates & merges

[Stefan Roese]

On Thursday 06 December 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This serie of patches converts the 32 bits PCI code to use the generic
> pci_assign_unassigned_resources() instead of its own assignment code
> which was unable to deal with unassigned PCI<->PCI bridges among
> other issues.
>
> It then merges the resource fixup and allocation code between 32 and
> 64 bits (mostly making 64 bits use the 32 bits code with a few fixups),
> hopefully fixing the longstanding issue that not setting pci_probe_only
> on ppc64 would generally not work.
>
> We also add flags to control the behaviour of the PCI code, such as
> letting some platforms force a full re-assignment (similar to what
> pci-auto used to provide in arch/ppc) and remove a whole bunch of
> hackish code that is made obsolete by that change.
>
> 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources support will also need my
> separate patch to fix the generic setup-bus.c for that situation.
>
> Note that the patch that updates 4xx platforms to enable full resource
> assignments applied on top of my 4xx series for which I'll post a new
> version soon. You can apply the other ones and ignore this one if you
> want to test on some other platform without the other patch serie.

No problems on Katmai (440SPe) and Kilauea (405EX) so far. Apart from DEBUG 
still enabled in patch 8/10 as Olof already pointed out.

Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Best regards,
Stefan