[PATCH v3 03/12] bus: mvebu-mbus: Add static window allocation to the DT binding

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

On 06/18/2013 08:39 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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On Tuesday 18 June 2013, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

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Also allows you to have up to 40b offset, which might be important
with LPAE enabled.

Not with the current generation I think, since the mbus windows are
32 bit only, but it would avoid having to come up with a new format
for a potential future-generation mbus that has wider address.

Yeah, I also recall Thomas or Gregory mention a 32b limitation in
remap windows. But we don't need to waste addresses here

And even if SIAA0000 is a concern because there may be target id >15
someday, we can still have IIAASS00 instead of IIAA00SS. I guess
LPAE will not rise above 40b quickly ;)

S = 0 means 4 bit I, 8 bit A
S = F means special
S = 1 could mean 16 bit I, etc , etc

Yes, we could define things as 'SIAAoooo oooooooo'

But remember 'o' is the offset within the window, it is not related to
LPAE.

To need > 32 bits 'o' you need to have windows > 4G in size. The only
thing that could possibly do that is PCI-E, and it is all special
anyhow..

The mbus top level ranges remap already supports >4G locations for
the windows, even though current hardware cannot do that.

Jason