[PATCH] [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix Haleakala PCIe compatibility problem in dts

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Thu Feb 21 00:16:53 EST 2008


On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Since the 4xx PCIe driver checks for 405ex compatibility, the
> > PCIe interface was not detected as it is currently defined as
> > "405exr" compatible. This patch changes it to "405ex".
> >
> > The 405EX and 405EXr are identical exept that the 2nd PCIe and the
> > 2nd EMAC interfaces are missing.
>
> Does ppc405ex_pciex_core_init need to grow some logic to detect 405ex
> from 405exr and return the correct number of ports then?  It
> unconditionally returns 2 today.

Yes, this could be done. Right now it works because the 405EXr board 
(Haleakala) only instantiates one PCIe device in the dts.

A simple solution would be to just do a PVR check. Would this be acceptable?

Best regards,
Stefan



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