Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:29:56 +0000 | From | Graeme Gregory <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 06/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Make PCI optional for ACPI on ARM64 |
| |
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 02:46:35PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2015年01月18日 14:31, Jon Masters wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > > >Sorry for top posting from bed. The mainstream servers will all likely do > > PCIe but there are several that may not. They should not be excluded. That > said, > >if we booted a previously built kernel on a system without an MCFG and > > got no ECAM/root then things would probably still work. > > > >I think it'll work out either way but for the record there is no requirement to do PCIe on ARM servers that conform to spec. > > OK, Catalin already said that was not the main point of the > comments for this patch, I think the title and change log > of the patch is inconsistent with the code makes Catalin confused, > I will update them in next version. > Well what we are talking about is the presence of CONFIG_PCI=y which even in Jons case will be true as he wants to run the same kernel on both sets of hardware.
Now the architecture has PCI support I think its safe to remove the make PCI optional part of the patch as this should be handled runtime not compile time.
Graeme
| |