Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:58:00 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pci: generic host: make it more generic | From | Ming Lei <> |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> wrote: >> ... >> Do you think it is doable to introduce a option(from module >> parameter, or device tree, ...) to let the driver and PCI core >> ignore/bypass all pcibios handling for the generic bus? > > No, I don't think so.
Could you explain a bit? In VM world, it might be reasonable to claim that there is no pcibios service or pcibios service needn't.
IMO it isn't easy to make a cross-arch PCI generic controller driver if pcibios handling has to be involved.
Thanks, Ming Lei
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