[RFC PATCH V2 1/2] ACPI/PCI: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific ECAM quirks

On 2016-06-13 10:29, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:

Hi Sinan

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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/2] ACPI/PCI: Match PCI config space
accessors against platfrom specific ECAM quirks

On 6/13/2016 9:54 AM, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:

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As you can see here Liudongdong has replaced oem_revision with
oem_table_id.

Now it seems that there are some platforms that have already shipped
using a matching based on the oem_revision (right Jon?)

However I guess that if in FW they have defined oem_table_id properly
they should be able to use this mechanism without needing to a FW

update.

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Can these vendors confirm this?

Tomasz do you think this can work for Cavium Thunder?

Thanks

Gab

Why not have all three of them?

The initial approach was OEM id and revision id.

Jeff Hugo indicated that addition (not removing any other fields) of
table id
would make more sense.

Mmm from last email of Jeff Hugo on "[RFC PATCH 1/3] pci, acpi: Match
PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific ECAM quirks."

I quote:

 "Using the OEM revision
 field does not seem to be appropriate since these are different
 platforms and the revision field appears to be for the purpose of
 tracking differences within a single platform.  Therefore, Cov is
 proposing using the OEM table id as a mechanism to distinguish
 platform A (needs quirk applied) vs platform B (no quirks) from the
 same OEM."

So it looks to me that he pointed out that using the OEM revision field
is wrong...and this is why I have asked if replacing it with the table
id can work for other vendors....

Thanks

Gab

I had an internal discussion with jeff and cov before posting on the 
maillist.

I think there is missing info in the email.

Usage of oem id + table id + revision is ok.

Usage of oem id + revision is not ok as one oem can build multiple chips 
with the same oem id and revision id but different table id. Otherwise, 
we can run out of revisions very quickly.

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