address translation for PCIe-to-localbus bridge

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Nov 12 02:05:12 EST 2013


Dear Grant Likely,

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:50:50 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:

> > So the mbus would register an address xlate for its node that is
> > called instead of ranges parsing. For the example in my last message
> > the FPGA driver would register an xlate that made addresses relative
> > to its own BAR0 address.
> 
> There are already bus-specific transations available. Take a look at
> struct of_bus in drivers/of/address.c

Hum, right, but unless I'm wrong the of_busses[] array of struct of_bus
is fixed in drivers/of/address.c, and as it is, there is no way for a
specific bus driver to provide its own struct of_bus. So that would
need to be extended, right?

Thomas
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