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Message-ID: <56F4DF80.5070707@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:49:36 +0800
From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
To: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
<linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>,
Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>, <jdelvare@...e.de>,
"xuwei (O)" <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: Question about PCI I/O space in ARM64
On 2016/3/25 1:57, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> [+ Jean]
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:14:50AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> You need a PCI host controller driver (e.g.
>>>> drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c) and corresponding bindings in DT or
>>>> ACPI.
>>
>> In our inner test, there are some board without pcie host driver(even
>> without pci host controller).
>
> So I guess those drivers are for devices that are attached to an LPC
> controller that is not part of a PCI host controller, right ?
>
> BTW, what happened to this (not that I particularly like this patchset) ?
They are working on it, and will upstream again.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/29/154
>
[...]
>
> I agree with Arnd on this and we need to patch the eg f71805f driver too
> (or we just do not build on ARM) to make it request the IO port region it
> needs to actually probe the device, it is not correct to assume IO space
> is available and mapped, I think that's a driver bug rather than anything
> else, Jean can certainly shed some light here.
Ok, so Jean, would you take a look this? Thanks.
Kefeng
>
>> Define some arch in/out func instead of generic ops? when in/out vals, check
>> whether or not the pci_iobase is mapped.
>
> I do not think the problem should be solved in the IO accessors
> implementation, see above.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> .
>
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