[PATCH v2 07/27] PCI: Add software-emulated host bridge

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Jason Gunthorpe,

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:09:04 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> If Linux will discover properly (I strongly suspect it does) without
> the host bridge, then I would say to ditch this...
> 
> The PCI-E standard requires a host bridge device, but if Linux doesn't
> require it then there is no reason to emulate one.
> 
> That would simplify the question of PCI IDs - for Marvell's case and
> the sw root port bridge we can just copy the IDs from the bogus config
> space of the HW.

Not sure what you mean in this last paragraph. In this second version,
I really rely on the emulated PCI-to-PCI bridges for the resource
allocation. I give the Linux PCI core a global range of addresses for
memory regions and a global range of addresses for I/O regions, and
then I let Linux do the allocation of ranges on a per bridge basis,
depending on the devices detected downstream. And at the end, I use
those allocated ranges to set up the address decoding windows.

This all comes from your suggestions during the review of the first
revision of this patch set.

Thomas
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