Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:34:47 +0100 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/14] Rewrite Tegra PCIe driver |
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Dear Thierry Reding,
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:55:37 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> The reason is that with the latest bindings the matching of root ports > to device tree nodes works as-is and nothing else indicates that the > emulated host bridge is actually required to make any of this work. So > in order not to introduce unneeded code I've left it out for now. If > somebody decides that we actually need this host bridge (for standards > compliance or whatnot) it could easily be added back.
Ok.
> However, before the emulated bridge implementation can be merged I think > the PCI ID issue needs to be resolved.
Indeed. I am not sure yet how to solve that, though.
> > So, I instantiate one unique emulated Host Bridge, and then one > > emulated PCI-to-PCI Bridge for each PCIe interface that I have. > > Oh dear, that's even worse than on Tegra. The Marvell hardware doesn't > even expose the root ports as PCI devices on the bus?
My understanding is that no, it doesn't, but I am still figuring out many things in this PCIe topic.
> I suppose that in your case it really makes sense because you already > need the emulated PCI-to-PCI bridges and therefore adding an emulated > host bridge doesn't add much. As I said, for Tegra everything still > works without, so I didn't see a reason to add needless code.
Ok, thanks!
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com
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