[PATCH] powerpc: Add MPC837x PCIE controller RC mode support
Li Li
r64360 at freescale.com
Thu Jan 3 21:08:36 EST 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:14 +0800, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> After some more research, I noticed that the distinction between
> primary and secondary host bridges will go away _anyway_, so
> I guess we shouldn't worry about it too much.
>
> On powerpc64, we already don't care, as the
> arch/powerpc/kernel/isa-bridge.c
> code takes care of legacy I/O areas there, instead of the PCI code.
> It's only needed on machines with legacy ISA devices (PC keyboard,
> floppy, ...), and those can be converted to use the isa-bridge code
> at some point.
>
This is really a good new :)
- Tony
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