On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 12:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 09:55 +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
The next phase will be to see how much of the pci_controller structure can move into the generic code and reduce its size. I do suffer from not having a PowerPC platform where I can test the changes, but I can produce some compiled code that someone can test.
Ok, we can probably start from there. I think the right approach is to actually kill pci_controller by merging it with the new host bridge structure.
Most of the resources are there now, we need to move the rest. We probably will need a way to attach platform specific bits to it though, and a few hooks to populate them but that isn't terribly hard.
Oh and regarding testing...
qemu should help. For qemu ppc64, try -M pseries, that's fairly well maintained since it's the basis for all our new KVM based products, and there's still some (hopefully) working 32-bit mac stuff in there.
With pseries, I would expect that you can install fedora, debian or ubuntu (in fact you can also install SLES11/RHEL6 I believe).
Cheers, Ben.