[PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06
Gabriele Paoloni
gabriele.paoloni at huawei.com
Wed Nov 9 04:10:43 PST 2016
Hi Arnd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd at arndb.de]
> Sent: 08 November 2016 16:25
> To: Yuanzhichang
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on
> Hip06
>
> On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 11:47:09 AM CET zhichang.yuan wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * The first PCIBIOS_MIN_IO is reserved specifically for
> indirectIO.
> > + * It will separate indirectIO range from pci host bridge to
> > + * avoid the possible PIO conflict.
> > + * Set the indirectIO range directly here.
> > + */
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.start = 0;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.end = PCIBIOS_MIN_IO - 1;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.devpara = lpcdev;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.pfin = hisilpc_comm_in;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.pfout = hisilpc_comm_out;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.pfins = hisilpc_comm_ins;
> > + lpcdev->io_ops.pfouts = hisilpc_comm_outs;
>
> I have to look at patch 2 in more detail again, after missing a few
> review
> rounds. I'm still a bit skeptical about hardcoding a logical I/O port
> range here, and would hope that we can just go through the same
> assignment of logical port ranges that we have for PCI buses,
> decoupling
> the bus addresses from the linux-internal ones.
The point here is that we want to avoid any conflict/overlap between
the LPC I/O space and the PCI I/O space. With the assignment above
we make sure that LPC never interfere with PCI I/O space.
Thanks
Gab
>
> Arnd
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