linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v7 4/7] PCI/ACPI: Add interface acpi_pci_root

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Message-ID: <563CA9A6.7050309@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:22:46 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
Cc:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v7 4/7] PCI/ACPI: Add interface acpi_pci_root_create()

On 2015/11/6 20:40, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> On 06.11.2015 12:46, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> On 2015/11/6 18:37, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>>> On 06.11.2015 09:52, Jiang Liu wrote:
>>> Sure, ARM64 (0-16M IO space) QEMU example:
>>> DWordIO (ResourceProducer, MinFixed, MaxFixed, PosDecode, EntireRange,
>>>           0x00000000,         // Granularity
>>>           0x00000000,         // Range Minimum
>>>           0x0000FFFF,         // Range Maximum
>>>           0x3EFF0000,         // Translation Offset
>>>           0x00010000,         // Length
>>>           ,, , TypeStatic)
>> The above DWordIO resource descriptor doesn't confirm to the ACPI spec.
>> According to my understanding, ARM/ARM64 has no concept of IO port
>> address space, so the PCI host bridge will map IO port on PCI side
>> onto MMIO on host side. In other words, PCI host bridge on ARM64
>> implement a IO Port->MMIO translation instead of a IO Port->IO Port
>> translation. If that's true, it should use 'TypeTranslation' instead
>> of 'TypeStatic'. And kernel ACPI resource parsing interface doesn't
>> support 'TypeTranslation' yet, so we need to find a solution for it.
> 
> I think you are right, we need TypeTranslation flag for ARM64 DWordIO
> descriptors and an extra kernel patch to support it.
How about the attached to patch to support TypeTranslation?
It only passes compilation:)

> 
> Thanks,
> Tomasz

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