[RFC PATCH 0/2] arm: pcibios: remove pci_sys_data domain

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Oct 30 12:21:40 PDT 2014


On Thursday 30 October 2014 11:45:41 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:39:15PM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> 
> > But of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() does not request the resources, it only
> > creates them out of the DT ranges. If/when the driver decides the list of
> > resources is correct and it can work with it can also request them and use
> > whatever domain number allocation strategy it wants (auto-incrementing or DT
> > based). So I don't think the global sequencing is broken here.
> 
> So how does mvebu now allocate a unique domain number per mvebu_pcie?

I believe the answer to that is that the mvebu PCIe driver currently only
supports one domain, and it will have the unique number '0', which is the
default.

> Which hw_pci callback should do that?

I think the purpose Lorenzo's patches (more to come) is to obsolete all
of the hw_pci callbacks for modern drivers.

	Arnd



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