Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:53:27 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pci: Add support for creating a generic host_bridge from device tree |
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:27:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I would rather get rid of struct hw_pci for architecture independent > drivers and add a different registration method on arm32 that is > compatible with what we come up with on arm64. The main purpose of > hw_pci is to allow multiple PCI controllers to be initialized at > once, but we don't actually need that for any of the "modern" platforms > where we already have a probe function that gets called once for > each controller.
No. The main purpose of hw_pci is as a container to support multiple different platform specific PCI implementations in one kernel. It's exactly what you need for single zImage.
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