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

From: Paul Walmsley
Date: Fri Dec 21 2018 - 17:34:20 EST




On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Alistair Francis wrote:

> 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


- Paul