Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:09:14 +0200 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] asm-generic/pci_iomap.h: make custom PCI BAR requirements explicit |
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On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 09:02:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2015 01:53:46 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, my gut feeling tells me that your approach won't solve the problem > > > in general. s390 PCI is just weird in many ways and it will occasionally > > > suffer from problems like this (as do other aspects of the s390 architecture > > > that are unlike the rest of the world). > > > > > > Maybe Martin and Heiko can comment on this, they may have a preference > > > from the s390 point of view. > > > > Hrm, so S390 is quirky is really odd ways that no other architecture is or > > is at least for now not expected to be ? > > Absolutely correct. It is the only architecture I'm aware of that tries to > support PCI that does not use pointer dereferences for MMIO.
So its not worth it to have a formal semantic via Kconfig for this and are happy with the status quo of having to find out through a bot compile test any changes in this domain fails?
Luis
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