From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] pcie-designware: support for external MSI controller
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:06:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160830180633.67d6479d@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01d202d5$a3809bd0$ea81d370$@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:46:13 -0400, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > Please discard this patch series, it's just pure crap. No changes at all
> > are needed on the pcie-designware driver, using the msi-parent property
> > already works, and my new code does nothing good.
> >
> > The of_pci_find_msi_chip_by_node() API is on its way to being removed, and
> > it doesn't return anything useful.
> >
> > Only PATCH 3/3 is needed, which I'll resubmit separately.
> >
> > Sorry for the noise.
>
> Oh, good.
> The support for External MSI controller is really necessary.
> Thank you for your patch!
Well, no change in the driver is needed to use an external MSI
controller. Just specify:
msi-parent = <&....>
in the DT description of your Designware PCIe controller. And that's
it. I've tested it with the GIC v2m MSI controller on an ARM64
platform, and it works as expected.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 12:57 [PATCH 0/3] pcie-designware: support for external MSI controller Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-30 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: designware-pcie: document optional msi-parent property Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-02 15:01 ` Rob Herring
2016-08-30 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] pci: pcie-designware: add support for external MSI controller Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-30 13:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-08-30 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: marvell: enable MSI for PCIe on Armada 7K/8K Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-30 15:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] pcie-designware: support for external MSI controller Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-30 15:46 ` Jingoo Han
2016-08-30 16:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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