[PATCH] powerpc/83xx: don't probe broken PCI on mpc837x_mds boards

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 3 05:48:44 EST 2008


On Oct 2, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> In the standalone setup the board's CPLD disables the PCI internal
> arbiter, thus any access to the PCI bus will hang the board.
>
> When there is no PCI arbiter on the bus the u-boot marks the PCI
> bus as broken and we should not try to probe it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>

Can you add to the commit message something about using the 'status  
field in the device tree to determine if the pci controller is  
available'

- k



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