[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 6/6] bcm53xx: R8000 handle PEX8603 switch

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 22 June 2015 at 10:10, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> On 06/22/2015 02:51 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 19:19 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> On 10 March 2015 at 04:30, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
>>>> The Netgear R8000 has a PEX8603 connected to the BCM53012 and if
>>>> it isn't configured during the bus scan the PCI layer goes crazy
>>>> trying to configure phantom devices.
>>>
>>> This is kind of magic for me.
>>> Hauke: are you able to review this?
>>
>> Yeah, it's a bridge so it needs upstream and downstream bus ids set but
>> the main issue is that it doesn't respond with appropriate return values
>> for non-existent devices.
>>
>> I modelled the code on the corresponding source from the Broadcom SDK
>> file that this source was originally developed from (at least it
>> appeared to match).
>>
>> I confirmed that PEX860X devices don't return proper return code from
>> another PEX driver, from the WRT1900 source I think, its been a while
>> now.
>>
>> Ian
>
> Hi,
>
> I completely missed these patches, thanks for pointing me to them again.
> I will try to review them in the net days. I already saw this code in
> the vendor driver but did not add it because my devices did not use it.
> We will change to a different PCIe driver with the next kernel in
> OpenWrt, because Broadcom added a kernel for this PCIe core into the
> mainline kernel. We should get it into this new driver. Then also some
> people from Broadcom can review this.

This would be nice to patch the old driver in CC branch. To get R8000
supported by CC.

-- 
Rafał
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