Message-ID: <2c37626c-22b0-69ff-9800-9d4b84ed5e98@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 23:56:20 -0600
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@....com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        robh@...nel.org, helgaas@...nel.org
Cc:     clement.leger@...tlin.com, max.zhen@....com, sonal.santan@....com,
        larry.liu@....com, brian.xu@....com, stefano.stabellini@...inx.com,
        trix@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 0/3] Generate device tree node for pci devices

On 3/8/23 23:52, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 1/19/23 21:02, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> This patch series introduces OF overlay support for PCI devices which
>> primarily addresses two use cases. First, it provides a data driven method
>> to describe hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI endpoint and
>> hence can be accessed by the PCI host. Second, it allows reuse of a OF
>> compatible driver -- often used in SoC platforms -- in a PCI host based
>> system.
>>
>> There are 2 series devices rely on this patch:
>>
>>   1) Xilinx Alveo Accelerator cards (FPGA based device)
>>   2) Microchip LAN9662 Ethernet Controller
> 

Sorry, hit send too quickly...

> Can someone please provide me a link to both:
> 
>   - a high level specification sheet
>   - a detailed data sheet/programming manual

for the lan9662 PCIe card

-Frank

> 
> -Frank
> 
> 
>>
>>      Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427094502.456111-1-clement.leger@bootlin.com/
>>
>> Normally, the PCI core discovers PCI devices and their BARs using the
>> PCI enumeration process. However, the process does not provide a way to
>> discover the hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI device, and
>> which can be accessed through the PCI BARs. Also, the enumeration process
>> does not provide a way to associate MSI-X vectors of a PCI device with the
>> hardware peripherals that are present in the device. PCI device drivers
>> often use header files to describe the hardware peripherals and their
>> resources as there is no standard data driven way to do so. This patch
>> series proposes to use flattened device tree blob to describe the
>> peripherals in a data driven way. Based on previous discussion, using
>> device tree overlay is the best way to unflatten the blob and populate
>> platform devices. To use device tree overlay, there are three obvious
>> problems that need to be resolved.
>>
>> First, we need to create a base tree for non-DT system such as x86_64. A
>> patch series has been submitted for this:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220624034327.2542112-1-frowand.list@gmail.com/
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220216050056.311496-1-lizhi.hou@xilinx.com/
>>
>> Second, a device tree node corresponding to the PCI endpoint is required
>> for overlaying the flattened device tree blob for that PCI endpoint.
>> Because PCI is a self-discoverable bus, a device tree node is usually not
>> created for PCI devices. This series adds support to generate a device
>> tree node for a PCI device which advertises itself using PCI quirks
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> Third, we need to generate device tree nodes for PCI bridges since a child
>> PCI endpoint may choose to have a device tree node created.
>>
>> This patch series is made up of three patches.
>>
>> The first patch is adding OF interface to create or destroy OF node
>> dynamically.
>>
>> The second patch introduces a kernel option, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PCI_OF_NODEX.
>> When the option is turned on, the kernel will generate device tree nodes
>> for all PCI bridges unconditionally. The patch also shows how to use the
>> PCI quirks infrastructure, DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL to generate a device
>> tree node for a device. Specifically, the patch generates a device tree
>> node for Xilinx Alveo U50 PCIe accelerator device. The generated device
>> tree nodes do not have any property.
>>
>> The third patch adds basic properties ('reg', 'compatible' and
>> 'device_type') to the dynamically generated device tree nodes. More
>> properties can be added in the future.
>>
>> Here is the example of device tree nodes generated within the ARM64 QEMU.
>> # lspci -t    
>> -[0000:00]-+-00.0
>>            +-01.0-[01]--
>>            +-01.1-[02]----00.0
>>            +-01.2-[03]----00.0
>>            +-01.3-[04]----00.0
>>            +-01.4-[05]----00.0
>>            +-01.5-[06]--
>>            +-01.6-[07]--
>>            +-01.7-[08]--
>>            +-02.0-[09-0b]----00.0-[0a-0b]----00.0-[0b]--+-00.0
>>            |                                            \-00.1
>>            +-02.1-[0c]--
>>            \-03.0-[0d-0e]----00.0-[0e]----01.0
>>
>> # tree /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/pcie\@10000000
>> /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/pcie@...00000
>> |-- #address-cells
>> |-- #interrupt-cells
>> |-- #size-cells
>> |-- bus-range
>> |-- compatible
>> |-- device_type
>> |-- dma-coherent
>> |-- interrupt-map
>> |-- interrupt-map-mask
>> |-- linux,pci-domain
>> |-- msi-parent
>> |-- name
>> |-- pci@1,0
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,1
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,2
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,3
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,4
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,5
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,6
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@1,7
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@2,0
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- pci@0,0
>> |   |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |   |-- compatible
>> |   |   |-- device_type
>> |   |   |-- pci@0,0
>> |   |   |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |   |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |   |   |-- compatible
>> |   |   |   |-- dev@0,0
>> |   |   |   |   |-- compatible
>> |   |   |   |   `-- reg
>> |   |   |   |-- dev@0,1
>> |   |   |   |   |-- compatible
>> |   |   |   |   `-- reg
>> |   |   |   |-- device_type
>> |   |   |   |-- ranges
>> |   |   |   `-- reg
>> |   |   |-- ranges
>> |   |   `-- reg
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@2,1
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- pci@3,0
>> |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |-- compatible
>> |   |-- device_type
>> |   |-- pci@0,0
>> |   |   |-- #address-cells
>> |   |   |-- #size-cells
>> |   |   |-- compatible
>> |   |   |-- device_type
>> |   |   |-- ranges
>> |   |   `-- reg
>> |   |-- ranges
>> |   `-- reg
>> |-- ranges
>> `-- reg
>>
>> Changes since v6:
>> - Removed single line wrapper functions
>> - Added Signed-off-by Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>
>>
>> Changes since v5:
>> - Fixed code review comments
>> - Fixed incorrect 'ranges' and 'reg' properties and verified address
>>   translation.
>>
>> Changes since RFC v4:
>> - Fixed code review comments
>>
>> Changes since RFC v3:
>> - Split the Xilinx Alveo U50 PCI quirk to a separate patch
>> - Minor changes in commit description and code comment
>>
>> Changes since RFC v2:
>> - Merged patch 3 with patch 2
>> - Added OF interfaces of_changeset_add_prop_* and use them to create
>>   properties.
>> - Added '#address-cells', '#size-cells' and 'ranges' properties.
>>
>> Changes since RFC v1:
>> - Added one patch to create basic properties.
>> - To move DT related code out of PCI subsystem, replaced of_node_alloc()
>>   with of_create_node()/of_destroy_node()
>>
>> Lizhi Hou (3):
>>   of: dynamic: Add interfaces for creating device node dynamically
>>   PCI: Create device tree node for selected devices
>>   PCI: Add PCI quirks to generate device tree node for Xilinx Alveo U50
>>
>>  drivers/of/dynamic.c        | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/pci/Kconfig         |  12 ++
>>  drivers/pci/Makefile        |   1 +
>>  drivers/pci/bus.c           |   2 +
>>  drivers/pci/msi/irqdomain.c |   6 +-
>>  drivers/pci/of.c            |  71 ++++++++++++
>>  drivers/pci/of_property.c   | 212 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c    |   3 +-
>>  drivers/pci/pci.h           |  19 ++++
>>  drivers/pci/quirks.c        |  11 ++
>>  drivers/pci/remove.c        |   1 +
>>  include/linux/of.h          |  24 ++++
>>  12 files changed, 556 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/pci/of_property.c
>>
> 

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