[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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