Re: [PATCH] enable PCI bridges in MIPS ip32

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:27:57PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> > The entire testing done by chkslot() is probably not needed, so I suggest
> > you try to simply dump the thing entirely and test.
> 
>  Exactly what I wrote too. :-)  Though I would imagine it was introduced 
> for a reason, like a bug in the host bridge or something, as already 
> suggested.  Otherwise what would the point have been?

I suspect cut-and-paste-o-mania, probably originally started by the
necessity of doing so for the Galileo chips.

  Ralf