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Message-ID: <17209565.32fjuqOkZh@phil>
Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:10:39 +0100
From:   Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
Cc:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        Alan Douglas <adouglas@...ence.com>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...e-electrons.com>,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] PCI: endpoint: Cleanup EPC features

Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2019, 06:05:00 CET schrieb Kishon Vijay Abraham I:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On 07/01/19 8:05 PM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > Am Montag, 7. Januar 2019, 07:41:33 CET schrieb Kishon Vijay Abraham I:
> >> Hi Lorenzo,
> >>
> >> The Endpoint controller driver uses features member in 'struct pci_epc'
> >> to advertise the list of supported features to the endpoint function
> >> driver.
> >>
> >> There are a few shortcomings with this approach.
> >>   *) Certain endpoint controllers support fixed size BAR (e.g. TI's
> >>      AM654 uses Designware configuration with fixed size BAR). The
> >>      size of each BARs cannot be passed to the endpoint function
> >>      driver.
> >>   *) Too many macros for handling EPC features.
> >>      (EPC_FEATURE_NO_LINKUP_NOTIFIER, EPC_FEATURE_BAR_MASK,
> >>       EPC_FEATURE_MSIX_AVAILABLE, EPC_FEATURE_SET_BAR,
> >>       EPC_FEATURE_GET_BAR)
> >>   *) Endpoint controllers are directly modifying struct pci_epc
> >>      members. (I have plans to move struct pci_epc to
> >>      drivers/pci/endpoint so that pci_epc members are referenced
> >>      only by endpoint core).
> >>
> >> To overcome the above shortcomings, introduced pci_epc_get_features()
> >> API, pci_epc_features structure and a ->get_features() callback.
> >>
> >> Also added a patch to set BAR flags in pci_epf_alloc_space and
> >> remove it from pci-epf-test function driver.
> >>
> >> Tested on TI's DRA7xx platform.
> > 
> > While I don't have that much PCI experience and hence cannot judge
> > this cleanup as a whole, I can at least say, that my Rockchip rk3399
> > still does find its PCIE-connected wifi card, so this series on rk3399
> > 
> > Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
> 
> Thank you for testing this series with PCIe controller configured in RC mode.
> It would be great if it could be tested with EP mode too.
> 
> Thanks for the help.

Sadly I don't have hardware for that, but the support was done by Shawn,
maybe he can help with testing EP mode and will hopefully see this mail
and give it a spin.

Heiko


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