[PATCH 19/20] [POWERPC] pci32: 4xx embedded platforms want to reassign all PCI resources

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Dec 14 08:37:26 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:11 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Well, there is physical PCI hardware on the boards, yes.  But what if
> people have no intention of using it?  E.g. they have no devices, etc.
> Now we're requiring PCI support to be built into the kernel.
> 
> I'm just being pedantic about keeping embedded tiny.

Keeping your embedded design tiny (and thus your own BSP) is one thing,
but adding ifdef's all over the place so that somebody can tinify an
eval board, I'm less sure about this... but if you want, you can fixup
my patches.

Ben.





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