Re: [PATCH] PCI: rcar-gen4: Inline GIC_TRANSLATER offset macro

Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:35:10 +0100,
Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 7/10/26 10:30 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:10:03 +0100,
> > Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Instead of pulling in the whole linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h , copy the
> >> one GITS_TRANSLATER register offset macro directly into the driver.
> >> This repairs the ability to build the driver on non-ARM non-GIC targets
> >> the way it was possible until now, which retains good build test coverage.
> >> 
> >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
> >> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/[email protected]/
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >> Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Conor Dooley <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> ---
> >> Note: The alternative I could think of would be ifdeffery which
> >>        is not nice and thwarts the build coverage, or limit the
> >>        driver to ARM/ARM64 in Kconfig which also thwarts the build
> >>        coverage. I could also split off the register macros in
> >>        linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h into some separate header
> >>        linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3-regs.h and include that which
> >>        might be OKish and avoids duplication. Thoughts ?
> > 
> > No, I'm not hacking something that is purely architecture specific for
> > the purpose of a bizarre integration quirk that should be handled by
> > the boot firmware, and not Linux.
> 
> The PCIe controller is fully controlled by Linux.

And it shouldn't. Why can't your favourite boot-loader use it, like on
any reasonable machine?

	M.

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