Re: [PATCH v3 00/3] MIPS: SGI-IP27 rework part2

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon May 06 2019 - 06:38:08 EST


On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:57:26 -0500
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:47:49PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > SGI IP27 (Origin/Onyx2) and SGI IP30 (Octane) have a similair
> > architecture and share some hardware (ioc3/bridge). To share
> > the software parts this patchset reworks SGI IP27 interrupt
> > and pci bridge code. By using features Linux gained during the
> > many years since SGI IP27 code was integrated this even results
> > in code reduction and IMHO cleaner code.
> >
> > Tests have been done on a two module O200 (4 CPUs) and an
> > Origin 2000 (8 CPUs).
>
> Thanks for doing all this work! It seems like it basically converts
> some of the SGI PCI code to the structure typical of current host
> controller drivers and moves it to drivers/pci/controller, which all
> seems great to me.
>
> The patches were kind of in limbo as far as Patchwork. Lorenzo
> handles the native host controller drivers, so I just delegated them
> to him, so now they should be on his radar.

Is there a chance to still get this into v5.2 ?

Thomas.

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