linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] pci: OF: Fix the conversion of IO ranges into IO resources.

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Message-ID: <8423286.OPDZmpV5UN@wuerfel>
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:00:55 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Cc:	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] pci: OF: Fix the conversion of IO ranges into IO resources.

On Thursday 27 February 2014 14:21:03 Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:08:44PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > I think using pci_address_to_pio() at that point is just wrong
> > in either way. Before the host is fully registered, you can't actually
> > look up the port number -- you are only trying to assign one at this time.
> > 
> > The implementation that Will wrote for ARM would work here: find the
> > next available virtual I/O range, call pci_ioremap_io on range->pci_addr
> > and then return the virtual address. Unfortunately that code is not
> > architecture independent at this time, and we will first have to come
> > up with something that can be made to work for powerpc, microblaze,
> > mips and arm.
> 
> No, no, no... we cannot use the virtual address as the start of the resource
> as this will later be used when doing pcibios_resource_to_bus().

My mistake: I meant to say return the offset into the virtual window, i.e.
what IORESOURCE_IO space is about.

> What we need here is a portable way of converting from PCI range that uses physical
> CPU addresses to a IORESOURCE_IO type resource that uses logical IO
> addresses. Using logical IO values works, as Bjorn's code treats it as
> physical address.

Right.


	Arnd
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