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

[Kumar Gala]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> 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.

Really?  what for?

- k