Re: arch/mips/pci* stuff

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:55:19PM +0400, Gleb O. Raiko wrote:

> Could somebody, please, explain me what arch/mips/pci* stuff is for? My
> understanding is drivers/pci code shall setup everything except proper
> placing in PCI MEM/IO spaces and irqs. The code in arch/mips/pci*
> contains much more.
> 
> Anyway, drivers/pci code provides enough fixup interface, doesn't it ?
> 
> BTW, if the code in arch/mips/pci* is really required how about
> fine-grained placing, like in sparc64?

Drivers/pci/ does no full initialization of PCI busses which is necessary
on some systems where the firmware doesn't.  The code in the kernel tree
isn't yet complete; I still have two patches left to merge.

  Ralf