Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [Linaro-acpi] [RFC PATCH 3/4] arm64, acpi, pci: Add arch specific functions for mmconfig driver. | Date | Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:54:09 +0100 |
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On Friday 07 November 2014 15:39:32 Tomasz Nowicki wrote: > On 07.11.2014 15:12, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Friday 07 November 2014 14:27:55 Tomasz Nowicki wrote: > >> These calls allow to map/unmap PCI config space ranges (which are specified in > >> MMCFG ACPI table). > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> > >> > > > > Nothing in this patch looks arm64 specific, and most of it looks like a > > copy of the x86 code. > > Yes, most of the logic was borrowed from mmconfig_64.c file, > mmconfig_32.c looks differently, though. It is not simple to merge them > both. IMO, we have two choices: > 1. Refactor and move mmconfig_64.c out of x86 to e.g. drivers/acpi/ and > let it be default. > 2. Stay with solution presented in this patch. > 3. Thoughts ?
If the code is generic, it should be shared with as many architectures as possible. Moving the x86-64 implementation to drivers/acpi/ would immediately let you share it with two out of the four architectures (x86-64 and arm64, but not x86-32 and ia64) as well as any potential other architectures that might implement ACPI in the future.
Arnd
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