[PATCH v2 07/10] ARM: tegra: pcie: Add device tree support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 22 June 2012, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Friday 22 June 2012, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> The requirement (if there is one) isn't anything related to PC-ness.
> >> I just don't understand how things can actually work if two host
> >> bridges both claim the same bus number.  If we do a config read to
> >> that bus, both bridges should claim it and turn it into config cycles
> >> on their respective root buses, and we should get two responses.  I
> >> would expect the second response to cause an "unexpected response"
> >> machine check or similar.
> >
> > But each PCI domain has its own config space, so if you do a config
> > read for one bus, it's always relative to the domain.
> 
> Oh, I see!  I totally missed the fact that each host bridge was in its
> own domain.  If each has its own domain, then the bus number aperture
> can certainly be [bus 00-ff] and there's no problem.

Right. On my side, it took me a while to figure out that you can
actually have multiple root ports in one domain ;-)

	Arnd