Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf

From: Scott Branden
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 19:11:17 EST




On 2019-10-11 6:31 a.m., Luis Chamberlain wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:24:22 +0200,
Scott Branden wrote:
I will admit I am not familiar with every subtlety of PCI
accesses. Any comments to the Valkyrie driver in this patch series are
appreciated.
But not all drivers need to work on all architectures. I can add a
depends on x86 64bit architectures to the driver to limit it to such.
But it's an individual board on PCIe, and should work no matter which
architecture is? Or is this really exclusive to x86?
Poke Scott.

Luis
Yes, this is exclusive to x86.
In particular, 64-bit x86 server class machines with PCIe gen3 support.
There is no reason for these PCIe boards to run in other lower end machines or architectures.