[PATCH 2/7] dt-bindings: PCI: Describe ATS property for root complex nodes

Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe.brucker at arm.com
Tue Jun 20 04:38:26 PDT 2017


On 06/06/2017 12:11 PM, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> On 05/06/17 18:20, Rob Herring wrote:
>> pci-host-{e,}cam-generic is a special case. I'm okay with having a 
>> property for that I suppose. We should not require this property though 
>> and allow for it to be implied by the SoC specific compatible as well.
> 
> The property isn't useful for host-generic since a host like Qemu can
> easily disable ATS in the IOMMU. It would only be here for consistency.
> Changing IOMMU registers wouldn't be as simple for a firmware running on
> real hardware.

Sorry I was mistaken here. AMD Seattle hardware, for instance, implements
a pure host-ecam-generic. So it's not exclusively used by Qemu. A quick
search in the kernel also brings up alpine and thunder2. So I guess I'll
move ats-supported documentation to host-generic-pci.txt.

Thanks,
Jean



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