why does ppc64 require boards to call pci_devs_phb_init()?
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri May 1 07:09:14 EST 2009
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:04 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> > looking at merging this in w/ppc32 and wondering why board code has
> > to call pci_devs_phb_init() and not do it via pcibios_init()
> >
> > - k
>
> As I look at this a bit more, I'm thinking why don't we do:
>
> pci_devs_phb_init_dynamic() in pcibios_alloc_controller
>
> An add some code into pci_devs_phb_init_dynamic so we don't re-do
> update_dn_pci_info if dn->data is already set.
>
> I am not sure what impact this has ppc64 systems that call
> pci_devs_phb_init()
That would probably work, remains the reconfig notifier thing but that
can probably be moved to pseries platform.
Cheers,
Ben.
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