[PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/83xx: Add PCI-E support for all MPC83xx boards with PCI-E

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Jan 7 06:27:47 EST 2009


On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:53:57PM +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello Anton,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Anton Vorontsov
> <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:46:45AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>
> >> Why?  Unless the BSP u-boots do something insane, I think we should try
> >> to have the upstream kernel boot on the u-boot that comes on the board
> >> (it's not nice to require users to reflash unnecessarily).
> >
> > Just in case, the latest version of this patch set is compatible with
> > the FSL u-boots.
> >
> 
> Up to now, I was testing PCIe with this combo:
> - U-Boot 1.3.0-rc2 (Nov 19 2007 - 16:37:36) MPC83XX, was on the board
> - dtc 1.1.0
> - Linux 2.6.24.3 w/ Freescale patches from http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/
> 
> 
> That u-boot (i.e. on the mpc8315e-rdb board) had PCIe initialization.
> 
> Is u-boot PCIe initialization required for this kernel patch to work?

Yup.

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