[Skiboot] [PATCH v11 20/23] core/pci: Power off empty hotpluggable slot

[Stewart Smith]

Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>I'd prefer we use a callback rather than busy looping (and there's other
>>places in PCI code that does this too, but this appears to be new, so it
>>gets unfairly picked on :)
>>
>
> I'm afraid we cannot relinquish the CPU for other tasks. This function is
> called when skiboot is booting, meaning it's executed in a job context.
> I guess we don't support stop/resume job in current implementation. Even
> with stop/resume job supported, more information needed to track the states
> even that's supported - a bit complexity than the polling mechanism. Lets
> have the polling mechanism for now and I will think about it in future.

Ahh... I was wondering about that.

I probably need to have a think about how I'd like it to look, and what
we care about at boot time versus at run time.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.