ARM PCI controller registration and representation using device tree?

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 02:41:52AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Saturday 02 June 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

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I think we have to keep the existing strategy of having struct hw_pci and
its pci_sys_data, registering each bus separately with its own individual
swizzle and map_irq functions depending on how the bus hardware is setup.

Actually, I think we won't need to call pci_fixup_irqs for DT at all, so
there won't be host specific swizzle and map_irq functions. AFAICT the
interrupt-map property can handle all possible cases, it certainly does
so for a large number of obscure buses on powerpc.

That means you have to list every PCI device in DT along with its
interrupt number - which means your boot loader will have to scan the
PCI bus and provide interrupt and BAR settings into the kernel.

And that will suck if you have something like a 4 port PCI network card
which has a PCI-to-PCI bridge on - are boot loaders going to have the
correct swizzling support?  I think not.