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Message-ID: <20220302132525.lg5ko5s2smti5pbt@pali> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:25:25 +0100 From: Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org> To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>, Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Remap IO space to bus address 0x0 On Wednesday 02 March 2022 14:06:01 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:25:39AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Monday 28 February 2022 17:42:03 Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > > > > Hello Pali, > > > > > > > >> Remap PCI I/O space to the bus address 0x0 in the Armada 37xx > > > >> device-tree in order to support legacy I/O port based cards which have > > > >> hardcoded I/O ports in low address space. > > > >> > > > >> Some legacy PCI I/O based cards do not support 32-bit I/O addressing. > > > >> > > > >> Since commit 64f160e19e92 ("PCI: aardvark: Configure PCIe resources from > > > >> 'ranges' DT property") this driver can work with I/O windows which > > > >> have > > > > > > > > Should we add a "Fixes: 64f160e19e92 ("PCI: aardvark: Configure PCIe > > > > resources from 'ranges' DT property")" tag ? > > > > > > Waiting for your confirmation I tried to applied it but it failed. > > > > > > Did you base this patch on v5.17-rc1 ? > > > > > > Gregory > > > > Hello! This change is breaking booting of Turris Mox kernel with older > > bootloader due to bugs in bootloader. > > Do you know what actually goes wrong? Yes! There is already pending fix for U-Boot which will fix this bug: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20220223125232.7974-1-kabel@kernel.org/ But because older U-Boot version is already in production we cannot change this. > I've not been involved in the discussion, but looking at the comments > above, not changing the space can result in non-working cards. And changing it would result in non-bootable kernels or crashing kernels... So possible non-working card is better choice. Note that non-working cards are only those which do not support 32-bit I/O ports, which is probably only some ancient PCI or ISA cards. I have checked 3 random mPCIe SATA controllers which use I/O ports and they support 32-bit I/O addressing, so I guess these cards should not be affected at all. > So it > does sound like something which in general we want to do. Does the > current code assume the bootloader has initialized some registers with > specific values? Can that be moved into the driver so it also works > with older bootloaders? > > Andrew Yes, by converting DTS to board platform data, stop using DTS and dynamically fill board platform data by kernel code... hehe :D nothing which we want. Probably it could be possible to write drivers which would ignore address resources in DTS and fill kernel structured dynamically from HW registers, in similar way how old platform data on arm32 worked in the past. But this is too much work for which I do not see real usage. I'm really not going to use ISA card connected to PCI-to-ISA bridge connected itself to PCIe-to-PCI bridge and this connected to A3720 SoC. If somebody is really want to use this setup, then it is easier to upgrade bootloader (patch is already pending) and manually edit DTS file to remap I/O space to bus address 0x0. This edit can be automated by U-Boot script (or U-Boot driver). It is really easier to do upgrade+fix bootloader and modify DTB on the fly than hacking kernel to support older bootloaders which are already in use.
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