[PATCH 1/6] pci, thunder: Add support for Thunder PCIe host controller

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Sep 24 09:49:46 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:12:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2014 17:37:43 Robert Richter wrote:
> > From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>
> > 
> > This patch adds support for PCI host controller of Cavium Thunder
> > SoCs.
> 
> I had expected this hardware to be SBSA compliant. Why do you need
> a hardware specific driver, is this a workaround for buggy hardware
> or just noncompliant?

Patches welcome to pci-host-generic.c :) Lorenzo already has code to port
it to Liviu's new API, so do shout if it's not suitable for your needs.

> > +static int thunder_pcie_msi_enable(struct thunder_pcie *pcie,
> > +					struct pci_bus *bus)
> > +{
> > +	struct device_node *msi_node;
> > +
> > +	msi_node = of_parse_phandle(pcie->node, "msi-parent", 0);
> > +	if (!msi_node)
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > +	pcie->msi = of_pci_find_msi_chip_by_node(msi_node);
> > +	if (!pcie->msi)
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > +	pcie->msi->dev = pcie->dev;
> > +	bus->msi = pcie->msi;
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> This is probably something we should add to the generic host driver as well,
> so it can work with SBSA compliant implementations that come with an MSI
> controller. Maybe move it into common code so it can be shared with that
> driver.

Agreed. I've been carrying something similar [1] (based on a hacked-up version
of bios32, so not bothered to post it) whilst I've been waiting for the
arm64 core PCI code to get merged.

Will

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git/commit/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c?h=iommu/pci&id=b719acf062ceccfbd79ee7b1ae0b7904ea4da27e



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