[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pci: remove the stale comments of pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges

Kevin Hao haokexin at gmail.com
Fri May 17 16:58:41 EST 2013


These comments already don't apply to the current code. So just remove
them.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
index 6053f03..8245d51 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
@@ -657,15 +657,6 @@ void pci_resource_to_user(const struct pci_dev *dev, int bar,
  *     ranges. However, some machines (thanks Apple !) tend to split their
  *     space into lots of small contiguous ranges. So we have to coalesce.
  *
- *   - We can only cope with all memory ranges having the same offset
- *     between CPU addresses and PCI addresses. Unfortunately, some bridges
- *     are setup for a large 1:1 mapping along with a small "window" which
- *     maps PCI address 0 to some arbitrary high address of the CPU space in
- *     order to give access to the ISA memory hole.
- *     The way out of here that I've chosen for now is to always set the
- *     offset based on the first resource found, then override it if we
- *     have a different offset and the previous was set by an ISA hole.
- *
  *   - Some busses have IO space not starting at 0, which causes trouble with
  *     the way we do our IO resource renumbering. The code somewhat deals with
  *     it for 64 bits but I would expect problems on 32 bits.
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1.8.1.4



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