[PATCH 7/7] Celleb: update for PCI

[Ishizaki Kou]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
> > This is a patch kit to support PCI bus on Celleb with new "I/O routines
> > for PowerPC." External PCI on Celleb must do explicit synchronization
> > with devices (Bus has no automatic synchronization feature).
> 
> It seems you are duplicating a lot of
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/io-workarounds.c, in order to work around
> the same problem:

 (snip)

> Is there a way that we can make that code common? I guess there could be a
> file in arch/powerpc/sysdev that can handle this correctly for all hardware
> that requires this particular workaround (currently celleb and QS20, but
> potentially more).

Though I agree it's better to make code common, I hope to keep them
separate for now. Because I'm now developing PCI Express support and
it also uses io-workaround mechanism. I'll try to make them common in
this work.

Best regards,
Kou Ishizaki