[PATCH v1 3/3] ARM64 LPC: update binding doc
liviu.dudau at arm.com
liviu.dudau at arm.com
Tue Jan 12 01:07:22 PST 2016
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:39:36AM +0800, Rongrong Zou wrote:
> On 2016/1/12 0:14, liviu.dudau at arm.com wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:13:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>On Sunday 03 January 2016 20:24:14 Rongrong Zou wrote:
> >>>在 2015/12/31 23:00, Rongrong Zou 写道:
> >>>>2015-12-31 22:40 GMT+08:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de <mailto:arnd at arndb.de>>:
> >>>> > On Thursday 31 December 2015 22:12:19 Rongrong Zou wrote:
> >>>> > > 在 2015/12/30 17:06, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
> >>>> > > > On Tuesday 29 December 2015 21:33:52 Rongrong Zou wrote:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > The DT sample above looks good in principle. I believe what you are missing
> >>>> > here is code in your driver to scan the child nodes to create the platform
> >>>> > devices. of_bus_isa_translate() should work with your definition here
> >>>> > and create the correct IORESOURCE_IO resources. You don't have any MMIO
> >>>> > resources, so the absence of a ranges property is ok. Maybe all you
> >>>> > are missing is a call to of_platform_populate() or of_platform_bus_probe()?
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>>You are right. thanks, i'll try on test board . if i get the correct result , the new patch
> >>>>will be sent later. By the way, it's my another email account use when i at home.
> >>>
> >>>I tried, and there need some additional changes.
> >>>
> >>>isa at a01b0000 {
> >>>
> >>>/*the node name should start with "isa", because of below definition
> >>>* static int of_bus_isa_match(struct device_node *np)
> >>>* {
> >>>* return !strcmp(np->name, "isa");
> >>>* }
> >>
> >>Looks good. It would be nicer to match on device_type than on name,
> >>but this is ancient code and it's probably best not to touch it
> >>so we don't accidentally break some old SPARC or PPC system.
> >>
> >>>*/
> >>> compatible = "low-pin-count";
> >>> device_type = "isa";
> >>> #address-cells = <2>;
> >>> #size-cells = <1>;
> >>> reg = <0x0 0xa01b0000 0x0 0x10000>;
> >>> ranges = <0x1 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x1000>;
> >>>/*
> >>>* ranges is required, then i can get the IORESOURCE_IO <0xe4,4> from "reg = <0x1, 0x000000e4, 4>".
> >>>*
> >>>*/
> >>> ipmi_0:ipmi at 000000e4{
> >>> device_type = "ipmi";
> >>> compatible = "ipmi-bt";
> >>> reg = <0x1 0x000000e4 0x4>;
> >>>};
> >>>
> >>
> >>This looks wrong: the property above says that the I/O port range is
> >>translated to MMIO address 0x00000000 to 0x00010000, which is not
> >>true on your hardware. I think this needs to be changed in the code
> >>so the ranges property is not required for I/O ports.
> >>
> >>>drivers\of\address.c
> >>>static int __of_address_to_resource(struct device_node *dev,
> >>> const __be32 *addrp, u64 size, unsigned int flags,
> >>> const char *name, struct resource *r)
> >>>{
> >>> u64 taddr;
> >>>
> >>> if ((flags & (IORESOURCE_IO | IORESOURCE_MEM)) == 0)
> >>> return -EINVAL;
> >>> taddr = of_translate_address(dev, addrp);
> >>> if (taddr == OF_BAD_ADDR)
> >>> return -EINVAL;
> >>> memset(r, 0, sizeof(struct resource));
> >>> if (flags & IORESOURCE_IO) {
> >>> unsigned long port;
> >>>
> >>>/*****************************************************************/
> >>>/*legacy port(< 0x1000) is reserved, and need no translation here*/
> >>>/*****************************************************************/
> >>> if(taddr + size < PCIBIOS_MIN_IO){
> >>> r->start = taddr;
> >>> r->end = taddr + size - 1;
> >>> }
> >>
> >>I don't like having a special case based on the address here,
> >>the same kind of hack might be needed for PCI I/O spaces in
> >>hardware that uses an indirect method like your LPC bus
> >>does, and the code above will not work on any LPC implementation
> >>that correctly multiplexes its I/O ports with the first PCI domain.
> >>
> >>I think it would be better to avoid translating the port into
> >>a physical address to start with just to translate it back into
> >>a port number, what we need instead is the offset between the
> >>bus specific port number and the linux port number. I've added
> >>Liviu to Cc, he wrote this code originally and may have some idea
> >>of how we could do that.
> >
> >Hi,
>
> Hi Liviu,
>
> Thanks for reviewing this.
>
> >
> >Getting back to work after a longer holiday, my brain might not be running
> >at full speed here, so I'm trying to clarify things a bit here.
> >
> >It looks to me like Rongrong is trying to trap the inb()/outb() calls that he
> >added to arm64 by patch 1/3 and redirect those operations to the memory
> >mapped LPC driver. I think the whole redirection and registration of inb/outb
> >ops can be made cleaner, so that the general concept resembles the DMA ops
> >registration? (I have this mental picture that what Rongrong is trying to do
> >is similar to what a DMA engine does, except this is slowing down things to
> >byte level). If that is done properly in the parent node, then we should not
> >care what the PCIBIOS_MIN_IO value is as the inb()/outb() calls will always
> >go through the redirection for the children.
> >
> >As for the ranges property: does he wants the ipmi-bt driver to see in the
> >reg property the legacy ISA I/O ports values or the CPU addresses? If the former,
> >then I agree that the range property should not be required, but also the
> >reg values need to be changed (drop the top bit). If the later, then the
> >ranges property is required to do the proper translation.
>
> The former, thanks.
>
> >
> >Rongrong, removing the ranges property and with a reg = <0xe4 0x4> property
> >in the ipmi-bt node, what IO_RESOURCE type resources do you get back from
> >the of_address_to_resource() translation?
>
> I want to get IORESOURCE_IO type resource, but if the parent node drop the
> "rangs" property, the of_address_to_resource() translation will return with -EINVAL.
Have you tracked what part of the code is sensitive to the presence of "ranges"
property? Does of_get_address() call returns the IO_RESOURCE flag set without "ranges"?
Best regards,
Liviu
>
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Liviu
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Arnd
> >>
> >
> Regards,
> Rongrong
>
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