On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 19:43 -0300, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
>
>> This patch series does:
>>   1. max_bus_speed is used to set the device to gen2 speeds
>>   2. on power there's no longer a conflict between the pseries call and other
>> architectures, because the overwrite is done via a ppc_md hook
>>   3. radeon is using bus->max_bus_speed instead of 
>> drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask
>> for gen2 capability detection
>>
>> The first patch consists of some architecture changes, such as adding a hook 
>> on
>> powerpc for pci_root_bridge_prepare, so that pseries will initialize it to a
>> function, while all other architectures get a NULL pointer. So that whenever
>> pci_create_root_bus is called, we'll get max_bus_speed properly setup from
>> OpenFirmware.
>>
>> The second patch consists of simple radeon changes not to call
>> drm_get_pcie_speed_cap_mask anymore. I assume that on x86 machines,
>> the max_bus_speed property will be properly set already.
>
> So I'm ok with the approach now and I might even put the powerpc patch
> in for 3.10 since arguably we are fixing a nasty bug (uninitialized
> max_bus_speed).
>
> David, what's your feeling about the radeon change ? It would be nice if
> that could go in soon for various distro targets :-) On the other hand
> I'm not going to be pushy if you are not comfortable with it.

FWIW, the radeon change looks fine to me.

Alex
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