Messages in this thread | | | From | Gregory CLEMENT <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI: mvebu: Restrict build to 32-bit ARM | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:34:30 +0100 |
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Hi Arnd,
On jeu., févr. 18 2016, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 February 2016 14:32:10 Thierry Reding wrote: >> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> >> >> This driver uses PCI glue that is only available on 32-bit ARM. This >> used to work fine as long as ARCH_MVEBU and ARCH_DOVE were exclusively >> 32-bit, but that's changed now, with ARCH_MVEBU also being available >> on 64-bit ARM. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> > > Looks fine as a temporary workaround, but I think what we really want to > do here is to remove the dependency, as the new ARM64 platforms are going > to need this driver anyway.
Actually the mvebu ARM64 platform we know about (Armada 3700, 7K and 8K), won't use the same controller. A7K/A8K will use a synopsis IP and Armada 3700 a new Marvell IP.
So for me depending on ARM32 is enough.
Gregory
-- Gregory Clement, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com
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