[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: mvebu: Add support to get the ID and the revision of a SoC

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Sun Jan 5 12:27:56 EST 2014


On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 04:40:23PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +static int __init mvebu_soc_id_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct device_node *np;
> > > +	int ret = 0;
> > > +
> > > +	np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, mvebu_pcie_of_match_table);
> > > +	if (np) {
> > > +		void __iomem *pci_base;
> > > +		struct clk *clk;
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * ID and revision are available from any port, so we
> > > +		 * just pick the first one
> > > +		 */
> > > +		struct device_node *child = of_get_next_child(np, NULL);
> > 
> > I guess all this will fail if for some reason the PCIe node is not
> > present on machines that don't use PCIe.
> 
> Hi Arnd
> 
> That would be rather odd. These nodes are in the top level SoC dtsi
> file. When they are not used, they have status = "disabled" and are in
> the dtb blob with this state.

Hang on, you can't safely read from a disabled PCI node, it could have been
powered down by the bootloader..

Jason



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list