Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 16 April 2014, Jingoo Han wrote:
Samsung GH7 has four PCIe controllers which can be used as root complex for PCIe interface.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han jg1.han@samsung.com
drivers/pci/host/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/pci/host/pci-exynos.c | 135
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2 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
+ Byungho An, Ilho Lee
Hi Arnd,
Can you explain how much the GH7 and Exynos front-ends actually have in common? Would it make sense to have a separate driver for gh7?
Basically, ARMv8 based GH7 has same PCIe hardware IP with previous ARMv7 based exynos5440, several features in PCIe are different though. In other words, basic functionalities for PCIe are same. So I think, would be nice if we could use one PCIe device driver for both SoCs.
However, if we need to support the PCIe with each own device driver because of difference of 32bit and 64bit, please kindly let us know. Honestly, I'm not sure about that right now.
Also, if gh7 is expected to run a full firmware, I think you should do all the setup in the firmware before booting Linux, and just do the required run-time operations in the driver itself.
Well, we're expecting that all the setup should be done by the device driver in kernel not firmware.
Thanks, Kukjin