pci-mvebu driver on km_kirkwood
From: Thierry Reding <hidden>
Date: 2013-08-09 14:01:42
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:50:34PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00:45AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:quoted
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Actually, the main reason for trying to use this driver was because I wanted to model a PCIe *device* within the device tree, so to expose its GPIOs and IRQs to be referenced (through phandles) from other device tree nodes. The way I understand it, turns out this is not the way to go, as PCI/PCIe are essentially enumerated busses, so you're not supposed to -and it's not a trivial task to- put any information about real devices within the device tree. Do you have any suggestion about that?Indeed, PCI/PCIe devices are enumerated dynamically, so they are not listed in the Device Tree, so there's no way to "attach" more information to them. Device Tree people, any suggestion about the above question?No, that isn't true. Device tree can include the discovered PCI devices, you have to use the special reg encoding and all that weirdness, but it does work. The of_node will be attached to the struct pci device automatically. On server/etc DT platforms the firmware will do PCI discovery and resource assignment then dump all those results into DT for the OS to reference. This is a major reason why we wanted to see the standard PCI DT be used for Marvell/etc, the existing infrastructure for this is valuable. AFAIK, Thierry has tested this on tegra, and I am doing it on Kirkwood (though not yet with the new driver). It is useful for exactly the reason stated - you can describe GPIOs, I2C busses, etc, etc in DT and then upon load of the PCI driver engage the DT code to populate and connect all that downstream infrastructure.
Obviously this doesn't work in general purpose systems because the PCI hierarchy needs to be hardcoded in the DT. If you start adding and removing PCI devices that will likely change the hierarchy and break this matching of PCI device to DT node. It's quite unlikely to have a need to hook up GPIOs or IRQs via DT in a general purpose system, though, so I don't really see that being a big problem. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20130809/52a28f3e/attachment.sig>