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

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:14:18AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> I don't know, should we? For the unavailable/disabled case the status
> can be anything but not 'ok' or 'okay' (the only status values for the
> available devices). So if we can encode the reason, why not do this?

that works for me, just add the fact to the commit msg that the "valid  
status's are 'ok' and 'okay' and everything else is treated as "not  
available or disabled"

- k