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On 2019-10-11 6:31 a.m., Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:24:22 +0200,
>> Scott Branden wrote:
>>> I will admit I am not familiar with every subtlety of PCI
>>> accesses. Any comments to the Valkyrie driver in this patch series are
>>> appreciated.
>>> But not all drivers need to work on all architectures. I can add a
>>> depends on x86 64bit architectures to the driver to limit it to such.
>> But it's an individual board on PCIe, and should work no matter which
>> architecture is?  Or is this really exclusive to x86?
> Poke Scott.
>
>    Luis
Yes, this is exclusive to x86.
In particular, 64-bit x86 server class machines with PCIe gen3 support.
There is no reason for these PCIe boards to run in other lower end 
machines or architectures.