Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: defconfig: Enable Generic PCIE by default

[Alistair Francis]

On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 14:34 -0800, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Alistair Francis wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 11:27 -0800, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > > 
> > > > When the MicroSemi driver does eventually go upstream this will
> > > > probably have to be discussed though as either the config or
> > > > device
> > > > tree will need to be edited to ensure only one PCIe device is
> > > > present.
> > > 
> > > The right way to do that is to have two separate DT files: one
> > > for the 
> > > HiFive-U board alone; the other for the HiFive-U plus the
> > > expansion 
> > > board combo.  There shouldn't be any problems with keeping both 
> > > drivers enabled in the defconfig.
> > 
> > Agreed, the only problem is that the device tree comes from the
> > boards
> > firmware at the moment.
> 
> The switchover is in progress:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/41dac7a1-3f66-6a3f-8a68-206688e5bd9e@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t

Great! I didn't know it was in progress.

Alistair

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> - Paul
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