Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add ACPI support for HiSilicon PCIe Host Controllers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Feb 08 2016 - 08:56:03 EST


On Monday 08 February 2016 13:17:58 Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
>
> Now I have removed the dependency from designware but I still think
> the best location for the code is in "drivers/pci/host/":
> the ACPI quirks share the config read/write functions with the DT
> driver, moreover for other hosts in future I think it makes sense
> to stay in "drivers/pci/host/" as they could even share more init
> code with their respective DT versions...

I haven't really followed what is going on with ACPI. Do you expect
to see future machines come out that are not just implementing SBSA
but that still need to run ACPI? I thought this was just a hack
for some early machines that only run with ACPI but are not actually
compliant.

Arnd