[PATCH v2] powerpc/83xx: don't probe broken PCI on mpc837x_mds boards

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:08 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 adds
> status = "broken (no arbiter)" property into the PCI controller's
> node, and so marks the PCI controller as unavailable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> ---
>
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:48:44PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 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'
>
> Something like this?
>
> Thanks,

yes, but should we just have "status = disabled" since that is the  
effect?

- k